Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

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Best Quotes about Patience

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

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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 key to contentment.

Mohammed

Had it pleas'd heaven to try me with affliction... I should have found in some place of my soul a drop of patience.

William Shakespeare

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

Roux, Joseph

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Margaret Thatcher

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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Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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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 then be powerless to vex your mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

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Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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

Perera, George

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Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow -- that is patience.

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

Saadi

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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All things come to him who waits -- provided he knows what he is waiting for.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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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Patience carries a lot of wait

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Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

William Shakespeare

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

Epictetus

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

William Shakespeare

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

Forbes, B. C.

34.

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

Prescott, W. B.

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

Helen Keller

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

Arnold, Matthew

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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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

George Jackson

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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.