Motivational Quotes

Patience

Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.

- Massinger, Philip

Best Quotes about Patience

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

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

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

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

Isaac Newton

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

William Shakespeare

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Prescott, W. B.

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Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.

Brian Adams

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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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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

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

George Jackson

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Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Patience is sottish, and impatience does become a dog that's mad.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach-waiting for a gift from the sea.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

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Work and wait, work and wait is what God says to us in creation.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Sometimes it helps to know that I just can't do it all. One step at a time is all that's possible -- even when those steps are taken on the run.

Schaef, Anne W.

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If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.

Newton, Sir Isaac

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Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.

Mcglashen, Bill

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Patience carries a lot of wait

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

William Shakespeare

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Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.

Faulkner, William

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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

Shakespeare, William

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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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Patience is counting down without blasting off

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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

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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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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

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With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair.

Arnold, Matthew

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Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper sprinkle cool patience.

William Shakespeare

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

Carrey, Jim

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