Motivational Quotes

Patience

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.

Best Quotes about Patience

You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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

William Shakespeare

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 be powerless to vex your mind.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

Elizabeth Taylor

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

Massinger, Philip

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

Epictetus

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

Helen Keller

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

Auden, W. H.

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

Saadi

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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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 carries a lot of wait

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

Saying, Traditional

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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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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Leonardo da Vinci

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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All things come to him who waits -- provided he knows what he is waiting for.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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 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.

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

Prescott, W. B.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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

Carrey, Jim

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

Bacon, Francis

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

William Shakespeare

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Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

Franz Kafka

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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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

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

William Shakespeare

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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