All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?
~By Jim Bishop ~
Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.
~By Guy Kawasaki ~
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.
~By Peter Stuyvesant ~
Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age.
~By Elliot Paul ~
A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don't have the patience to learn.
~By David Wilkerson ~
Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.
~By Rudyard Kipling ~
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
~By Edmund Burke ~
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
~By W. H. Auden ~
We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.
~By Bret Harte ~
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 ~
That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people.
~By Ray Harryhausen ~
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 ~
Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.
~By Corazon Aquino ~
Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.
~By Kin Hubbard ~
Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
~By William Penn ~
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 ~
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
~By Lao Tzu ~
Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
God gives me the children's ministry heart and patience. This is what He wants. It's awesome. I don't know where He's gonna take it-but God is building this thing.
~By Willie Aames ~
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.
~By Charlie Chaplin ~
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
~By Saint Augustine ~
No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.
~By William Shakespeare ~
Thank God my parents had an abundance of patience.
~By Lexa Doig ~
This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.
~By Wilkie Collins ~
Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.
~By James Keller ~
Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.
~By Rita Mae Brown ~
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
~By Jean Jacques Rousseau ~
My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.
~By Robert Wise ~
Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.
~By Holbrook Jackson ~
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 ~
Patience is sorrow's salve.
~By Charles Churchill ~
Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand.
~By Edward Sapir ~
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 ~
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.
~By Chuck Tanner ~
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 ~
He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
~By William Golding ~
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 ~
My worst quality is impatience.
~By Emma Thompson ~
I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.
~By Dick Dale ~
The principle part of faith is patience.
~By George MacDonald ~
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 ~
I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.
~By Tyrone Power ~
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
~By Barbara Johnson ~
With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
~By Daisaku Ikeda ~
He preacheth patience that never knew pain.
~By H. G. Bohn ~
If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
~By Ilie Nastase ~
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 ~
Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
~By Francis Bacon ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
~By Saadi ~
A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.
~By Gertrude Jekyll ~
You have to find the peace and patience within yourself to be a model and an example to others and not judge.
~By Judith Light ~
There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.
~By Larry Hagman ~
The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited.
~By Tom Lantos ~
Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
~By Marianne Moore ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Humility is attentive patience.
~By Simone Weil ~
Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
~By Franklin P. Jones ~
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 ~
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 ~
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
~By John Quincy Adams ~
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.
~By Thomas Edward Brown ~
Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
~By Saint Francis de Sales ~
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
~By Leo Tolstoy ~
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 ~
The greatest power is often simple patience.
~By E. Joseph Cossman ~
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
~By Stanislaw Lec ~
Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.
~By Peter Marshall ~
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.
~By Abdus Salam ~
Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?
~By Andrew Greeley ~
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 ~
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 ~
Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.
~By Ralph Fiennes ~
He that can have patience can have what he will.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
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.
~By Tom Holt ~
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.
~By Lawrence G. Lovasik ~
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.
~By Bill Brandt ~
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 ~
Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
~By Elizabeth Taylor ~
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 ~
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 ~
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.
~By Jenny Agutter ~
Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.
~By Herman Hesse ~
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 ~
There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.
~By Abu Bakr ~
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
~By Laurence J. Peter ~
Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
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 ~
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
~By Hal Borland ~
While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory.
~By Dweezil Zappa ~
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