Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Mcglashen, Bill

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Elizabeth Taylor

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

Kafka, Franz

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

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.

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

Hesiod

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

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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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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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Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.

Granville, George

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

Isaac Newton

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Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew -

Francis De Sales, St.

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Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

Proverb, Chinese

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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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Consider the hour-glass; there is nothing to be accomplished by rattling or shaking; you have to wait patiently until the sand, grain by grain, has run from one funnel into the other.

Morgenstern, John Christian

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A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience!

William Shakespeare

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

Prescott, W. B.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

William Shakespeare

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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.

Bushnell, Horace

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

Bacon, Francis

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In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause.

Johnson, Samuel

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Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow -- that is patience.

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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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

Voltaire

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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

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Patience is counting down without blasting off

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Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Cobbett, William

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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

William Shakespeare

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Patience carries a lot of wait

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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

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Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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