Famous Patience Quotations

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"He that can have patience can have what he will."
by Benjamin Franklin
"Our patience will achieve more than our force."
by Edmund Burke
"All human power is a compound of time and patience."
by Honore de Balzac
"[And how did he recover the patience that allowed him to await the arrival of songs for his 21st century trio of brilliant, contemplative, philosophical and socially conscious albums?] I just walked away from [the commercial career] and let it dismantle itself, ... I bit the bullet and crossed over that threshold to the realization that I may not be a big star in this thing. Maybe my path is something else. So I just started driving my kids to school and looking out after them. I stumbled onto a fantastic woman and built a relationship and became more solid inside myself and went back to work with a different mind-set, which is to please myself, because it's the only way I can be original."
by Rodney Crowell
"[Although Ball is considered a pop singer, he's not a total stranger to Gilbert and Sullivan, having played Frederick in the West End mounting of Joe Papp's memorable production of The Pirates of Penzance . But Patience is a different kind of work--much of its humor is highly topical, poking fun at the short-lived Aesthetic movement that flourished among British dilettantes 125 years ago. Will that humor translate to a New York audience in the year 2005?] I think there's absolutely no difference to how we regarded things then and how we regard things now, ... There are still those performers and artists who strike on a new art form or mode that attracts their fans, while the majority of us may be saying, 'I'm sorry, but isn't that The Emperor's New Clothes?' There will always be charlatans who do things just to get acclaim and adulation. So I think it'll speak to an audience as clearly today as it did then."
by Michael Ball
"A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience."
by John Updike
"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."
by Anonymous
"There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears."
by C. S. Robinson
"We are going to wait with a lot of patience."
by Otton Solis
"We played our best game of the year defensively and showed great patience on offense."
by Andy Werner
"We've had patience with the freshmen and look at it from a game-to-game standpoint. We're trying not to measure things just on wins and losses. We're trying to gauge improvement. We're building anew and it takes time. Rodney has really helped us at the point."
by Tommy Dempsey
"What does your sorrow do while you're sleeping? It is awaken and waiting. And, when it loses patience, it wakes me up."
by Ivo Andric
"When I came in here he was very instrumental in teaching me patience and understanding the game. He did that constantly and laid back sometimes when I was having a rough day. He had that big-brother mentality."
by Anonymous
"Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt."
by St. Francis
"With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown."
by Chinese proverb
"You have to use a little more patience. You are going to be in deeper water, like on the edge of a creek channel, so you are going to have to slow down to get the bait down."
by Brian Duplechain
"Without power at the gas stations, people are going to have to wait, ... Patience is kind of the word of the day."
by Jeb Bush
"Allow me to remind you that neither our patience nor our resources are infinite,"
by Javier Solana
"And then mentally, do I have the patience to see that through?"
by Phil Jackson
"Bradley showed a lot of patience at the plate there, hitting the ball the other way. If you want to drive in runs in this league, you have to go the other way. Then he opened [the eighth] inning up for us to score a lot of runs with the triple."
by Ken Macha
"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 Anonymous
"Earnings growth has been surprisingly low for drug stocks and there is more of that to come as we go through a cycle of patent expirations. But I think the stocks are close to being washed out and if you have patience they will do quite well over a longer period of time."
by Daniel Boone
"Dios tarda pero no olvida -- God delays but doesn't forget."
by Spanish Proverbs
"Farmers patience is completely exhausted. They will not accept pre-movement testing unless there is a cull."
by Tim Bennett
"If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees."
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
"Mr. Rooney was very supportive through three non-playoff years (1998-2000), and I'm very appreciative of his patience."
by Anonymous
"Mo's really not getting many pitches to hit. He doesn't have the patience of Barry Bonds ."
by Anonymous
"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."
by Joseph Addison
"Probably the biggest battle they're up against is patience. Everybody's got to be a little bit patient with them because it's not easy. You're running against teams that have been at it for 20 years. Starting out with a new team is really, really difficult."
by Terry Labonte
"Patience, please, please, please,"
by Patricia Collins
"Patience makes lighter What sorrow may not heal."
by Horace
"Patience is sorrow's salve."
by Charles Churchill
"Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength."
by Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
"Patience and tuning out the noise is what really gets rewarded in the market."
by Russ Kinnel
"Patience and putting, I think my putting is working very well today. To birdie the 3 par 3s out of 4 par 3s, I think it was a bonus for me. As you know, par 3 here is tough to play, especially with the wind."
by Mardan Mamat
"Slow and steady wins the race."
by Aesop
"Of all the things that tax a man's patience, there's nothing to compare with a stuck zipper."
by Source Unknown
"It's going to take a little patience,"
by Max Mayfield
"It's been six, seven years. I think I understand, but I'd like them to have patience, too, as I patiently wait."
by Anonymous
"Musa said to him: Shall I follow you on condition that you should teach me right knowledge of what you have been taught? / He said: Surely you cannot have patience with me / And how can you have patience in that of which you have not got a comprehensive knowledge? / He said: If Allah pleases, you will find me patient and I shall not disobey you in any matter."
by quran quran
"It is very important now to have a lot of patience, self-restraint, and cool-headedness, ... In other words, no one should take the law in their hands."
by Raanan Gissin
"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
"He's a great goalie, I admire him a lot. He has great patience. He just works hard and he's doing a great job."
by Anonymous
"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 Anonymous
"I do it in the morning because I have no patience to wait to open them."
by Miikka Kiprusoff
"As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality, sincerity, and solicitude, you will have a better opinion of the world around you"
by Grenville Kleiser
"He tests your patience. But I go with him because he's a gamer."
by Anonymous
"Beware the fury of a patient man."
by John Dryden
"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 Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance."
by Franklin P. Adams
"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 is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter."
by Clive Staples Lewis
"Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on hold fast hold out. Patience is genius."
by Comte de Buffon
"How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"
by William Shakespeare
"A patient man is one who can put up with himself."
by Author Unknown
"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."
by Thomas A. Edison
"Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience."
by Dr. Laurence J. Peter
"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success."
by Napolean Hill
"Patience is the key to paradise."
by Turkish Proverb
"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."
by Aristotle
"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 Molire
"An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains."
by Dutch
"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
"A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains."
by Dutch Proverb
"Abused patience turns to fury."
by Thomas Fuller
"Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience."
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer."
by Thomas Fuller
"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
"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
"Beth could not reason upon or explain the faith that gave her courage and patience to give up life, and cheerfully wait for death. Like a confiding child, she asked no questions, but left everything to God and nature, Father and Mother of us all, feeling sure that they, and they only, could teach and strengthen heart and spirit for this life and the life to come."
by Louisa May Alcott
"But thou, O man of God, flee these things and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness."
by 1 Timothy 611 Bible
"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things, there is no law."
by The Apostle Paul (Saul of Tarsus)
"Endurance is patience concentrated."
by Thomas Carlyle
"Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty."
by John Ruskin
"Evil is a fact not to be explained away, but to be accepted and accepted not to be endured, but to be conquered. It is a challenge neither to our reason nor to our patience, but to our courage."
by John Andrew Holmes
"Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight."
by Helen Keller
"For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross-grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self-control."
by Smiles
"Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience"
by Laurence Peter
"Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience."
by George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon
"Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience."
by GeorgeLouis De Buffon
"God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul. But because I happen to be a parent of almost fiercely maternal nature, I praise casualness . It seems to me the rarest of virtues. It is useful enough when children are small. It is important to the point of necessity when they are adolescents."
by Phyllis Mcginley
"Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience."
by Hyman Rickover
"Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves ... Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point it, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps, then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."
by Rainer Maria Rilke
"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew."
by Saint Francis de Sales
"Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee."
by Immanuel Kant
"Have patience awhile slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee."
by Immanuel Kant
"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. God is awake."
by Victor Hugo
"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
"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. God is awake."
by Victor Hugo
"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
"How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees."
by William Shakespeare
"How poor are they who have not patience What wound did ever heal but by degrees."
by William Shakespeare
"I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a transformer in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader."
by Stephen R. Covey
"I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader."
by Stephen Covey
"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
"I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures."
by Lao Tzu
"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
"I know the pain Oliver is in, and I know the pain our citizens are in, ... We just have to keep on asking for patience and asking them to endure, even more than they have already endured. These people coming in have been in stress since Monday. It is Saturday. Our heart goes out to them."
by Kathleen Blanco
"I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience -- and laughter."
by Susan M. Watkins


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