Motivational Quotes

Patience

To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.

- Maistre, Joseph De

Best Quotes about Patience

1.

Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

2.

It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

Elizabeth Taylor

3.

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

4.

In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.

Prescott, W. B.

5.

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

6.

If I'm not back in five minutes... just wait longer!

Carrey, Jim

7.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

Margaret Thatcher

8.

I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.

Einstein, Albert

9.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

Forbes, B. C.

10.

If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.

Hesiod

11.

Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

12.

How poor are they that have not patience. What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

Shakespeare, William

13.

I do oppose my patience to his fury, and am arm'd to suffer with a quietness of spirit, the very tyranny and rage of his.

William Shakespeare

14.

Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

15.

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

Chesterfield, Lord

16.

Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait -- not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

17.

How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees.

William Shakespeare

18.

Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.

Jackson, George Holbrook

19.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

Chaplin, Charlie

20.

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.

Cobbett, William

21.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time.

Voltaire

22.

Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

23.

Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.

La Fontaine, Jean De

24.

A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience.

William Shakespeare

25.

Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

26.

Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

27.

Be patient. The path of self-discipline that leads to God-realization is not an easy path: obstacles and sufferings are on the path; the latter you must bear, and the former overcome -- all by His help. His help comes only through concentration. Repetition of God's name helps concentration.

Ramdas, Swami

28.

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

29.

Had it pleas'd heaven to try me with affliction... I should have found in some place of my soul a drop of patience.

William Shakespeare

30.

Patience in the present, faith in the future, and joy in the doing

Perera, George

31.

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

Johnson, Barbara

32.

A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

33.

Patience. A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.

Bierce, Ambrose

34.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

Bacon, Francis

35.

Like farmers we need to learn that we cannot sow and reap the same day.

36.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

37.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Victor Hugo

38.

The patience of the hunter is always greater than that of the prey.

Saying, Traditional

39.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

40.

All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.

Kafka, Franz

41.

Patience carries a lot of wait

42.

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

43.

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

44.

There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails.

Richard Rybolt

45.

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

46.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

47.

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.

George Jackson

48.

Of all the things that tax a man's patience, there's nothing to compare with a stuck zipper.

49.

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength

Colton, Charles Caleb

50.

Patience permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord when we are tossed about by suffering as if by surf. When the undertow grasps us we will realize that we are somehow being carried forward even as we tumble. We are actually being -helped even as we cry for help.

Maxwell, Neal A.