Motivational Quotes

Patience

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

- Wilson, Woodrow T.

Best Quotes about Patience

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

Carrey, Jim

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

William Shakespeare

Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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 the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

19.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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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.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

26.

Patience carries a lot of wait

27.

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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Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

29.

Patience is the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

30.

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

Mcglashen, Bill

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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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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

33.

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

Isaac Newton

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

36.

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

Bacon, Francis

38.

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

Proverb, Chinese

39.

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

Maistre, Joseph De

40.

Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.

Ma, Sri Anandamayi

41.

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

42.

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

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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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Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

William Shakespeare

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

Perera, George

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

48.

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

William Shakespeare

49.

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

Prescott, W. B.