Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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

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

Maistre, Joseph De

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

Franz Kafka

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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

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

George Jackson

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper sprinkle cool patience.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

William Shakespeare

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

Faulkner, William

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

Epictetus

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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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The patience of the hunter is always greater than that of the prey.

Saying, Traditional

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

Voltaire

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

Hesiod

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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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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.

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Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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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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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

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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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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mcglashen, Bill

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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.