Motivational Quotes

Patience

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Epictetus

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

Roux, Joseph

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Shakespeare, William

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

William Shakespeare

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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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

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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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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

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait -- not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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

Mcglashen, Bill

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

Franz Kafka

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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Voltaire

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Patience is counting down without blasting off

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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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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