Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Patience

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

George Jackson

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

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

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

Proverb, Spanish

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Carrey, Jim

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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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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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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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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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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

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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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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 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

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

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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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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There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Roux, Joseph

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Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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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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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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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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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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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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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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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.