Patience Quotes

On my best days, I fancy myself a combination of Dad's persistence/patience and Mom's toughness/skepticism.

The biggest challenge, I think for any new artist, is patience.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

Abused patience turns to fury.

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.

We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project.

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

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.

There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.

I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.

Because I'm the author of my screenplays I know what I'm looking for. It's true that I can be stubborn in demanding that I get what I want, but it's also a question of working with patience and love.

When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.

Patience means restraining one's inclinations.

With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

I've said my patience is not infinite.

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

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

I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.

As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end.

I haven't got a lot of patience.

Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.

I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited.

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

The very important thing you should have is patience.

The principle part of faith is patience.

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.

Genius is eternal patience.

Speaking from my experience as a person involved for a long time in building the European Union, it is important to have patience and efforts to build a community of nations.

And we ask the American people to play an important part of our layered defense. We ask for cooperation, patience and a commitment to vigilance in the face of a determined enemy.

If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.

I wish I was a shredder that could play everything, but I don't have the patience.

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

Bear patiently with a rival.

My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

In this day and age, you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business.

And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust.

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

I have not the smarts or patience for political office.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

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

Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

Patience doesn't mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that's unfolding, rather than ripping open a budding flower or demanding a caterpillar hurry up and get that chrysalis stage over with.

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.

There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.

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

I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.

I think God's really blessed me with patience. I'm good with a lot of things going on at once.

To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days.