Thank God my parents had an abundance of patience.
~By Lexa Doig ~
I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here.
~By Paul Bremer ~
Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
~By Titus Maccius Plautus ~
We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.
~By Muammar al Gaddafi ~
Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
~By Saint Francis de Sales ~
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.
~By Ernie Banks ~
This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.
~By Wilkie Collins ~
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.
~By Leon Jouhaux ~
Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.
~By Peter Marshall ~
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.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
~By Baltasar Gracian ~
Genius is eternal patience.
~By Michelangelo ~
I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project.
~By Jerry Garcia ~
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
~By Paul Sweeney ~
All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.
~By Thomas Kempis ~
Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.
~By Ralph Fiennes ~
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
~By Moliere ~
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.
~By Joshua Slocum ~
Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.
~By Guy Kawasaki ~
Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
~By Franklin P. Jones ~
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
~By Stanislaw Lec ~
The principle part of faith is patience.
~By George MacDonald ~
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
~By Jean de La Fontaine ~
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.
~By Wil Wheaton ~
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.
~By George W. Bush ~
Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.
~By Rudyard Kipling ~
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.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
~By William Golding ~
We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.
~By Holbrook Jackson ~
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
~By Hyman Rickover ~
If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
~By Hal Borland ~
Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.
~By Charles Sturt ~
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.
~By Hart Crane ~
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.
~By Simon Raven ~
The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.
~By Ralph Marston ~
Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.
~By Evelyn Underhill ~
Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
~By Saadi ~
Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.
~By Rita Mae Brown ~
Patience is the art of hoping.
~By Luc de Clapier ~
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.
~By Anne Morrow Lindbergh ~
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
~By John Quincy Adams ~
Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.
~By Kin Hubbard ~
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.
~By Janet Napolitano ~
I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.
~By Robert Falcon Scott ~
Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
~By Sammy Davis, Jr. ~
Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.
~By Herman Hesse ~
He that can have patience can have what he will.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
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.
~By Elizabeth Edwards ~
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.
~By Martin Yan ~
It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
~By Elizabeth Taylor ~
It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.
~By Julie Bowen ~
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
~By John Ruskin ~
I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.
~By Tyrone Power ~
Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.
~By Eknath Easwaran ~
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.
~By Bowie Kuhn ~
The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited.
~By Tom Lantos ~
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.
~By Elihu Root ~
No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.
~By Star Jones ~
Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
~By Francis Bacon ~
If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest.
~By Jimmy Breslin ~
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.
~By Arnold H. Glasow ~
Abused patience turns to fury.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
~By Edmund Burke ~
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.
~By Pauline Kael ~
Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.
~By George Jackson ~
No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.
~By Jeremy Taylor ~
That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people.
~By Ray Harryhausen ~
Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
~By Soren Kierkegaard ~
When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.
~By Helen Hayes ~
My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years.
~By Christina Milian ~
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
~By George Savile ~
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
I haven't got a lot of patience.
~By Jeffrey Katzenberg ~
Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.
~By Bret Harte ~
If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
~By Ilie Nastase ~
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
~By Tertullian ~
Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open.
~By Gerry Adams ~
Patience is the best medicine.
~By John Florio ~
Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
~By James J. Corbett ~
I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
~By Gertrude Stein ~
Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?
~By Andrew Greeley ~
It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.
~By Julius Caesar ~
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
~By Larry Wall ~
I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.
~By Major Taylor ~
The greatest power is often simple patience.
~By E. Joseph Cossman ~
We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around.
~By Ryan White ~
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.
~By Cleveland Amory ~
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.
~By Paul Kane ~
God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.
~By Richard Cecil ~
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
~By Hal Borland ~
If public opinion still endorses military action that's one thing, but if they wait maybe it will not. So it's not only impatience, but there are several other factors.
~By Hans Blix ~
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.
~By Carl Jung ~
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.
~By Thomas Aquinas ~
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
~By Jean Jacques Rousseau ~
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
~By Lao Tzu ~
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
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