With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
~By Daisaku Ikeda ~
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
~By Jean Jacques Rousseau ~
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
~By Harriet Tubman ~
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
~By George Santayana ~
I haven't got a lot of patience.
~By Jeffrey Katzenberg ~
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 ~
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
~By Saint Augustine ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.
~By Rita Mae Brown ~
Endurance is patience concentrated.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
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 ~
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 has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.
~By Holbrook Jackson ~
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 ~
Genius is eternal patience.
~By Michelangelo ~
It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.
~By Khaleda Zia ~
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
~By George Savile ~
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
~By Laurence J. Peter ~
Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
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 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 ~
Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.
~By George Jackson ~
Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
~By Marianne Moore ~
The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited.
~By Tom Lantos ~
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 ~
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
~By Lao Tzu ~
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 ~
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 ~
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
~By Jean de La Fontaine ~
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 ~
Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
~By Saadi ~
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 ~
He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
~By William Golding ~
There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.
~By Larry Hagman ~
Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.
~By Philip Massinger ~
Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.
~By Bret Harte ~
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 ~
I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.
~By Dick Dale ~
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 ~
Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.
~By Evelyn Underhill ~
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 ~
All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
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, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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.
~By Francis Quarles ~
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
~By Stanislaw Lec ~
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
~By Larry Wall ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
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 ~
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 ~
If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
~By Ilie Nastase ~
Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
~By Francis Bacon ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
~By John Quincy Adams ~
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 ~
Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.
~By Matthew Arnold ~
This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.
~By Wilkie Collins ~
If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
~By Hal Borland ~
The greatest power is often simple patience.
~By E. Joseph Cossman ~
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
~By Franklin P. Jones ~
Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.
~By Rudyard Kipling ~
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.
~By Paul Gleason ~
I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.
~By Bob Woodward ~
Patience is the art of hoping.
~By Luc de Clapier ~
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 ~
I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.
~By Tyrone Power ~
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 ~
All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.
~By Thomas Kempis ~
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 ~
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 ~
Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
~By Titus Maccius Plautus ~
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
~By Hal Borland ~
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 ~
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.
~By David Mallet ~
Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.
~By Guy Kawasaki ~
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 ~
Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age.
~By Elliot Paul ~
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 ~
No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.
~By William Shakespeare ~
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 ~
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 ~
Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.
~By Robert Falcon Scott ~
My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years.
~By Christina Milian ~
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 ~
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, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.
~By Thomas Perry ~
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 ~
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