Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

Best Quotes about Patience

1.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

Franz Kafka

6.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

7.

A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

8.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

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

Granville, George

13.

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

14.

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

15.

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

Forbes, B. C.

16.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

17.

Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

18.

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

19.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

22.

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

23.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

24.

Patience in the present, faith in the future, and joy in the doing

Perera, George

25.

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

Bushnell, Horace

26.

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

Mcglashen, Bill

27.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

28.

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

29.

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

George Jackson

30.

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Arnold, Matthew

34.

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.

35.

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

Margaret Thatcher

36.

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

Proverb, Spanish

37.

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

38.

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.