Famous Quotes & Sayings

Swami Vivekananda

When you feel gloomy, think what has been done within the last year. How, rising from nothing.

Swami Vivekananda

We have not faith, we have not patience to see this. We trust the man in the street; but there is one being in the universe we never trust and that is God. We trust Him when He works just our way. But the time will come when, getting blow after blow, the self - sufficient mind will die. In everything we do, the serpent ego is rising up. We are glad that there are so many thorns on the path. They strike the hood of the cobra.

Swami Vivekananda

. . . Wait, my child, wait and work on. Patience, patience. . . . .

Swami Vivekananda

The bane of sects, especially in Bengal, is that if any one happens to have a different opinion, he immediately starts a new sect, he has no patience to wait.

Swami Vivekananda

Purity, perseverance, and energy- these three I want.

Swami Vivekananda

Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.

Swami Vivekananda

Love conquers in the long run. It won't do to become impatient - wait, wait - patience is bound to give success. . . .

Swami Vivekananda

Know it for certain that without steady devotion for the Guru and unflinching patience and perseverance, nothing is to be achieved. You must have strict morality.

Swami Vivekananda

Know full well that patience is the best means of succeeds.

Swami Vivekananda

If you have infinite patience and perseverance, success is bound to come. No mistake in that.

Swami Vivekananda

He who has infinite patience and infinite energy at his back, will alone succeed.

Swami Vivekananda

Have fire and spread all over. Work, work. Be the servant while leading, be unselfish, and never listen to one friend in private accusing another. Have infinite patience, and success is yours.

Swami Vivekananda

Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding. Those that persevere will see the light, sooner or later.

Swami Vivekananda

Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.

Thucydides

Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.

Saadi

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

Lexa Doig

Thank God my parents had an abundance of patience.

Lawrence G. Lovasik

The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.

Marcus Aurelius

All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.

Thomas Aquinas

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

Tertullian

Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.

Tertullian

Patience is God's nature.

Tertullian

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

Thomas a Kempis

Dispose thyself to patience rather than to comfort, and to the bearing of the cross rather than to gladness.

Thomas a Kempis

All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.

Swami Vivekananda

Wait with patience and love and strength. If helpers are not ready now, they will come in time. Why should we be in a hurry? The real working force of all great work is in its almost unperceived beginnings.

Swami Vivekananda

Infinite patience, infinite purity, and infinite perseverance are the secret of success in a good cause.

Swami Vivekananda

The fruit falls from the tree when it gets ripe. So wait for the time to come. Do not hurry. Moreover, no one has the right to make others miserable by his foolish acts. Wait, have patience, everything will come right in time.

Swami Vivekananda

Purity, patience and perseverance are the three essentials to success and above all love.

Swami Vivekananda

Nothing else is necessary but these - love, sincerity, and patience.

Simone Weil

Humility is attentive patience.

Joshua Slocum

Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one's patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days.