Motivational Quotes

Patience

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.

Best Quotes about Patience

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time.

Voltaire

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

Roux, Joseph

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.

Hesiod

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Faulkner, William

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.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

10.

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

George Jackson

11.

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

Proverb, Chinese

12.

To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.

Maistre, Joseph De

13.

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

William Shakespeare

14.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

15.

Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

16.

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.

17.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

18.

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

19.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Arnold, Matthew

25.

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

26.

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.

27.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

28.

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

Forbes, B. C.

29.

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

30.

Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

31.

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.

32.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

33.

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

Epictetus

34.

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

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

Mcglashen, Bill

36.

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

Saadi

37.

Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

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

Carrey, Jim

44.

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

45.

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