Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Patience

1.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

2.

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

3.

A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience!

William Shakespeare

4.

Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

5.

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

Cobbett, William

6.

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

Perera, George

7.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

8.

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

Proverb, Chinese

9.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

10.

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

11.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

13.

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

14.

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

15.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

16.

Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.

Granville, George

17.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

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

19.

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

Proverb, Spanish

20.

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

21.

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

Margaret Thatcher

22.

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

23.

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

Newton, Sir Isaac

24.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

25.

Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

26.

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

Johnson, Barbara

27.

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

Shakespeare, William

28.

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

Isaac Newton

29.

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

30.

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

Bhagavad Gita

31.

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

Bushnell, Horace

32.

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

George Jackson

33.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.