Motivational Quotes

Patience

Of all the things that tax a man's patience, there's nothing to compare with a stuck zipper.

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Best Quotes about Patience

1.

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

2.

I do oppose my patience to his fury, and am arm'd to suffer with a quietness of spirit, the very tyranny and rage of his.

William Shakespeare

3.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

4.

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.

5.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

6.

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

7.

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

William Shakespeare

8.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

9.

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

Forbes, B. C.

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

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.

12.

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

Kafka, Franz

13.

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.

14.

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

Isaac Newton

15.

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

Faulkner, William

16.

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

17.

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

18.

Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

19.

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

20.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

21.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

22.

You will conquer by patience.

Motto

23.

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

George Jackson

24.

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

Prescott, W. B.

25.

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

26.

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

27.

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.

Bushnell, Horace

28.

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

29.

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

Proverb, Spanish

30.

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

Mcglashen, Bill

31.

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.

32.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

33.

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

Epictetus

34.

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

35.

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

36.

Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

37.

Patience is counting down without blasting off

38.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

Bacon, Francis

39.

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

Helen Keller