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

Epictetus

2.

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

3.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

4.

Patience is counting down without blasting off

5.

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

6.

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

Helen Keller

7.

Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

8.

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

Margaret Thatcher

9.

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

Shakespeare, William

10.

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

Perera, George

11.

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

Johnson, Barbara

12.

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

13.

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.

14.

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

Saadi

15.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

16.

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

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

Proverb, Chinese

18.

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

19.

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

Arnold, Matthew

20.

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

21.

Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

22.

A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.

Faulkner, William

23.

Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

24.

Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

25.

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

Massinger, Philip

26.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that preparation of your mind, requisite for the enjoyment of your successes, and for retaining them when gained. So, day by day, and week by week; so month after month, and year after year, work on, and in that process gain strength and symmetry, and nerve and knowledge, that when success, patiently and bravely worked for, shall come, it may find you prepared to receive it and keep it,

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

30.

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

31.

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

Prescott, W. B.

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

36.

Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

37.

Patience carries a lot of wait

38.

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

39.

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

George Jackson

40.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

41.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

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

Kafka, Franz

43.

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

44.

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

45.

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

Mcglashen, Bill

46.

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

Carrey, Jim

47.

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