Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Stanislaw J. Lec

Best Quotes about Patience

Patience is counting down without blasting off

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

George Jackson

All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.

Kafka, Franz

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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.

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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

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

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.

Cobbett, William

10.

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Massinger, Philip

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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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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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Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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

Carrey, Jim

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Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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

Prescott, W. B.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

William Shakespeare

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

Voltaire

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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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 be powerless to vex your mind.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Patience carries a lot of wait

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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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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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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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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You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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

Roux, Joseph

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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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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