Motivational Quotes

Patience

Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses.

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Best Quotes about Patience

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

George Jackson

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

Cobbett, William

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

Stanislaw J. Lec

A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plaut

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Maistre, Joseph De

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

Isaac Newton

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

Massinger, Philip

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

William Shakespeare

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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 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 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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The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Franz Kafka

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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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Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

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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

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Patience is passion tamed.

Abbott, Lyman

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

Carrey, Jim

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Patience is the key to contentment.

Mohammed

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

William Shakespeare

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Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.

Syrus, Publilius

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

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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 the key to paradise.

Proverb, Turkish

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Patience will achieve more than force.

Burke, Edmund

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

Johnson, Barbara

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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.

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Patience means self-suffering.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

Proverb

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Sometimes it helps to know that I just can't do it all. One step at a time is all that's possible -- even when those steps are taken on the run.

Schaef, Anne W.

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

Prescott, W. B.

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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.