Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Saadi

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

William Shakespeare

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

Shakespeare, William

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

William Shakespeare

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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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

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Patience is counting down without blasting off

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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Perera, George

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

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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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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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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 then be powerless to vex your mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

William Shakespeare

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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.

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Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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

George Jackson

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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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You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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

Johnson, Barbara

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

Saying, Traditional

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

William Shakespeare

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

Faulkner, William

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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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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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

Mcglashen, Bill