How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
~By William Shakespeare ~
Humility is attentive patience.
~By Simone Weil ~
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 ~
Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
~By Titus Maccius Plautus ~
Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.
~By Thomas Perry ~
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 ~
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.
~By David Mallet ~
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 ~
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 ~
If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
~By Hal Borland ~
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 ~
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.
~By Kenny Loggins ~
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
~By John Ruskin ~
It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.
~By Khaleda Zia ~
I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.
~By Bob Woodward ~
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 ~
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 ~
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.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
~By Saint Francis de Sales ~
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 ~
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
~By Lao Tzu ~
He preacheth patience that never knew pain.
~By H. G. Bohn ~
Endurance is patience concentrated.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.
~By David Hobson ~
He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
~By William Golding ~
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
~By Edmund Burke ~
There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.
~By Cesar Chavez ~
Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
~By Sammy Davis, Jr. ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
I haven't got a lot of patience.
~By Jeffrey Katzenberg ~
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
~By George Santayana ~
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 is sorrow's salve.
~By Charles Churchill ~
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 ~
A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.
~By Stanley Baldwin ~
Find patience in the breath of life.
~By Ryunosuke Satoro ~
Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
~By Francis Bacon ~
Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.
~By Kin Hubbard ~
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
~By Victor Hugo ~
This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.
~By Wilkie Collins ~
Patience is the art of hoping.
~By Luc de Clapier ~
When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.
~By Helen Hayes ~
Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
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.
~By May Sarton ~
No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.
~By Star Jones ~
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, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.
~By Philip Massinger ~
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
~By John Burroughs ~
Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.
~By Peter Marshall ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Patience is passion tamed.
~By Lyman Abbott ~
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 ~
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
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 ~
Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.
~By Holbrook Jackson ~
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
~By Saint Augustine ~
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 ~
Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
~By William Penn ~
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 ~
Abused patience turns to fury.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
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 ~
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
~By John Quincy 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 ~
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
~By George Washington ~
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 ~
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 ~
The greatest power is often simple patience.
~By E. Joseph Cossman ~
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.
~By John Major ~
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 ~
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 ~
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
~By Stanislaw Lec ~
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 ~
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
~By Larry Wall ~
There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.
~By Larry Hagman ~
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 ~
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 ~
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.
~By Arnold H. Glasow ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
~By Tertullian ~
Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
~By Thomas Hardy ~
Genius is eternal patience.
~By Michelangelo ~
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 ~
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
~By Barbara Johnson ~
Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.
~By Anthony Hamilton ~
All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.
~By Thomas Kempis ~
He that can have patience can have what he will.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.
~By William Shakespeare ~
Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
~By Saadi ~
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