Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- 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

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

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Cobbett, William

Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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

Franz Kafka

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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

11.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Saadi

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

Shakespeare, William

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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Granville, George

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Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Brown, Jerry

19.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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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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Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

Proverb

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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

29.

Patience carries a lot of wait

30.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

31.

Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

32.

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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We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Helen Keller

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

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A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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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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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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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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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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

Elizabeth Taylor

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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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Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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You will conquer by patience.

Motto

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