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

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Shakespeare, William

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

William Shakespeare

Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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

Johnson, Barbara

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

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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

Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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

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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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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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Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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

Roux, Joseph

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

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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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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

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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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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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Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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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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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

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

George Jackson

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

Saadi

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bushnell, Horace

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Prescott, W. B.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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

37.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

William Shakespeare

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

Massinger, Philip

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.

Boese, Paul

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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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Patience carries a lot of wait

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

William Shakespeare