Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Patience carries a lot of wait

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Saadi

Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Granville, George

10.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

11.

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

Roux, Joseph

12.

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

Bacon, Francis

13.

Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.

Massinger, Philip

14.

A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

15.

If I'm not back in five minutes... just wait longer!

Carrey, Jim

16.

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

17.

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

18.

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

19.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

23.

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

Jackson, George Holbrook

24.

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

Margaret Thatcher

25.

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

Proverb, Chinese

26.

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

27.

If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.

Hesiod

28.

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

Epictetus

29.

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

Bushnell, Horace

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

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

32.

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

Voltaire

33.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Arnold, Matthew

37.

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

William Shakespeare

38.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Shakespeare, William

43.

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

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

46.

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

47.

Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

48.

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

Kafka, Franz

49.

Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

50.

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