Motivational Quotes

Patience

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Elizabeth Taylor

A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

Stanislaw J. Lec

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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.

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

Epictetus

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

Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

10.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

11.

Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

14.

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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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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

Carrey, Jim

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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

Voltaire

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

Arnold, Matthew

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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Franz Kafka

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

William Shakespeare

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

Perera, George

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

Massinger, Philip

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

Saying, Traditional

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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

37.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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

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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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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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Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Roux, Joseph

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

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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