163 Quotes Found
"I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience."
"So it's been a slow process and it's taken some patience. That's why patients are called patients I think - patience is required."
"If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything."
"Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required."
"As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience."
"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."
"This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve."
"As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future."
"I will exercise patience and will provide all facts to the general public."
"The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live."
"He preacheth patience that never knew pain."
"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."
"Patience is the best medicine."
"That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people."
"I think there's not much patience for organized labour, period, public or private sector."
"Sometimes they are a matter of luck the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates."
"My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker."
"You know, writing is really difficult, and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don't know if I have that. I admire it in others, so much, and I envy it."
"Patience is sorrow's salve."
"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."
"I haven't got a lot of patience."
"I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business."
"Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear."
"Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off."
"Patience has never been my strong suit."
"My wife is the most awesome person in the universe. She's made this experience much less miserable for me, with her compassion, patience and understanding."
"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."
"The very important thing you should have is patience."
"Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age."
"I wish I was a shredder that could play everything, but I don't have the patience."
"The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited."
"Patience means restraining one's inclinations."
"Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed."
"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."
"I've always been a person with patience, and I don't like to force things."
"Americans have less and less patience for the intrusive and divisive moral scolds who thrived in the bubbles of the Clinton and Bush years."
"Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience."
"Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem."
"My relationship with the Philharmonia Orchestra brought me many times to London and I will always reflect positively on that early period of development with them - their patience, their warmth, their dedication."
"I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer."
"I'm not really easy to live with! There needs to be unlimited patience and unconditional love. Men I've known before loved my independent spirit and were proud of my success, to the point that they'd become jealous of the time I devote to my career."
"Patience is passion tamed."
"I think God's really blessed me with patience. I'm good with a lot of things going on at once."
"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."
"True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep."
"I've said my patience is not infinite."
"Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?"
"Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries."
"Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair."
"My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years."
"Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot."
"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."
"The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience."
"Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better."
"I have no patience at all."
"Give your dog or cat respect, patience, understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week, that's a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel."
"When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so."
"In this day and age, you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business."
"Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions."
"I've worked so hard to eliminate the inner geek from my life. I suddenly realize I have no patience for those people who still have their geeks showing. Now I see why being 'normal' has been so important to me."
"People ask me a lot about the values I got from playing for the Cubs for so many years. The value I got out of it was patience. A lot of people these days are not very patient."
"No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience."
"You have to find the peace and patience within yourself to be a model and an example to others and not judge."
"You know, I lose patience really easily I'd rather shop in the grocery store than in the department store. I can pick an apple like nobody's business."
"Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill."
"I haven't been given many things, but I've been given ample, limitless patience."
"My biggest weakness is patience, wanting to see things happen too quickly or get changes in place right away. Not having the patience to let things develop."
"Thank God my parents had an abundance of patience."
"Patience was not my strong point."
"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."
"I think I have more patience now than I did in the past."
"Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it. Obviously, it's a challenge - but if you're not taking the bull by the horns, I have no patience for you. You're just taking up space."
"Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience."
"Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience."
"Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution."
"I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television."
"So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won't have the patience to pick them out."
"It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form."
"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."
"Luck is a component that a lot of people in the arts sometimes fail to recognise: that you can have talent, perseverance, patience, but without luck you will not have a successful career."
"There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them."
"Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily."
"A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?"
"If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down."
"I'm terrible with patience."
"I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting."
"There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance."
"Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it."
"I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it."
"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."
"Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent."
"How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?"
"The greatest power is often simple patience."
"Find patience in the breath of life."
"Hopelessness has surprised me with patience."
"I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project."
"It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy."
"I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient."
"Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work."
"With love and patience, nothing is impossible."
"Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice."
"As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind."
"I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve."
"Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish."
"I have not the smarts or patience for political office."
"The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards."
"Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness."
"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."
"We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own."
"Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears."
"The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human."
"Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while."
"Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity."
"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."
"I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory."
"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."
"It is strange that the years teach us patience that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting."
"Patience is the companion of wisdom."
"No, I will be the pattern of all patience I will say nothing."
"He that can have patience can have what he will."
"Patience and time do more than strength or passion."
"I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures."
"Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here."
"Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry."
"You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience."
"Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct."
"Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience."
"He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience."
"A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience."
"There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience."
"Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself."
"Beware the fury of a patient man."
"Bear patiently with a rival."
"Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience."
"If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees."
"If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought."
"Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength."
"Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience."
"All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer."
"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."
"Heaven grant us patience with a man in love."
"Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul."
"Humility is attentive patience."
"Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice."
"Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue."
"The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it."
"Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown."
"Endurance is patience concentrated."
"I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end."
"Genius is eternal patience."
"Our patience will achieve more than our force."
"Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy."
"I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it."
"A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else."
"Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself."
"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."
"Abused patience turns to fury."
"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."
"Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures."
"How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"
"We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world."
"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success."
"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."