Motivational Quotes

Patience

A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Patience

1.

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

Johnson, Barbara

2.

You will conquer by patience.

Motto

3.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

4.

Patience carries a lot of wait

5.

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

6.

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

Granville, George

7.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

8.

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

Bacon, Francis

9.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

10.

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

11.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

12.

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

Proverb, Chinese

13.

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

14.

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

Perera, George

15.

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

16.

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

17.

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

Arnold, Matthew

18.

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

Margaret Thatcher

19.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

20.

Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

21.

Patience is counting down without blasting off

22.

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

Prescott, W. B.

23.

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

24.

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

25.

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

George Jackson

26.

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

27.

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

Chesterfield, Lord

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

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.

31.

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

Patience. A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.

Bierce, Ambrose

33.

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

Roux, Joseph

34.

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

35.

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.

36.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

37.

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

William Shakespeare

38.

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

39.

It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

Elizabeth Taylor

40.

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

41.

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

Voltaire

42.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

43.

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

Proverb, Spanish

44.

Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

45.

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

46.

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

William Shakespeare

47.

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.

48.

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

Isaac Newton

49.

A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience.

William Shakespeare

50.

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

Stanislaw J. Lec