Motivational Quotes

Patience

Patience is the key to contentment.

- Mohammed

Best Quotes about Patience

Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

If you are tempted to lose patience with your fellowman; stop and think how patient God has been with you.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Dios tarda pero no olvida -- God delays but doesn't forget.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Bhagavad Gita

Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

William Shakespeare

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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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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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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

Hesiod

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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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Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Epictetus

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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

William Shakespeare

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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

Epictetus

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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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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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

Elizabeth Taylor

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Helen Keller

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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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Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

Saadi

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

Saying, Traditional

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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 a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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

Voltaire

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Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Patience carries a lot of wait

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert