Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Saadi

Best Quotes about Patience

Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Isaac Newton

Patience carries a lot of wait

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

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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

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Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper sprinkle cool patience.

William Shakespeare

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

George Jackson

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Arnold, Matthew

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

Franz Kafka

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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.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Faulkner, William

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Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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

Massinger, Philip

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Epictetus

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Carrey, Jim

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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.