Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Saying, Traditional

Best Quotes about Patience

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

George Jackson

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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Proverb, Spanish

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.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Prescott, W. B.

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

Franz Kafka

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

Granville, George

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

Mcglashen, Bill

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

Epictetus

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Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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

Faulkner, William

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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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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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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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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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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Roux, Joseph

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Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

Bacon, Francis

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It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

Elizabeth Taylor

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Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Saadi

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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

43.

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

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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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Patience permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord when we are tossed about by suffering as if by surf. When the undertow grasps us we will realize that we are somehow being carried forward even as we tumble. We are actually being -helped even as we cry for help.

Maxwell, Neal A.

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

Helen Keller

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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo