Patience Quotes

"Abused patience turns to fury."

"All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer."

"Basically, discipline, effort, patience and courage are hugely important core values for kids to grow up embracing."

"Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious."

"Bear patiently with a rival."

"Beware the fury of a patient man."

"Brad will tell you. He puts a movie on, I'm asleep in 10 minutes. I have no patience. But the kids love action movies with comedy, Jackie Chan and all that."

"Endurance is patience concentrated."

"Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts."

"For correct writing, the cultivation of patience and mental accuracy is essential. Throughout the young author's period of apprenticeship, he must keep reliable dictionaries and textbooks at his elbow; eschewing as far as possible that hasty extemporaneous manner of writing which is the privilege of more advanced students."

"For many years, I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism and exert moral strength, patience and all those other great attributes."

"Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience."

"Genius is eternal patience."

"Genius is patience."

"God always has patience."

"He that can have patience can have what he will."

"Heaven grant us patience with a man in love."

"Hopelessness has surprised me with patience."

"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."

"How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"

"Humility is attentive patience."

"I don't have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies themselves the pleasure of a bloody hunk of steak or a pungent French cheese because of some outdated nonsense about what's appropriate or attractive."

"I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient."

"I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures."

"I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it's up to me to choose to develop them."

"I have not the smarts or patience for political office."

"I haven't got the patience for small talk, although I once saw a woman standing on her own in the corner, and I realised it was Monica Lewinsky, and I had the nicest evening with her - she was charming."

"I like playing. I wouldn't be a good coach. I don't have the patience to be a coach."

"I need a close contact to the client, whoever it is, and a commitment of the client to go out and do a process together. I want to do the best for him. I need his respect and his patience. I want to work with a sophisticated person who's interested in a good building and not in my name."

"I pack a toothbrush, toothpaste, and deodorant. That's it. I don't have the time or patience for anything else. I'm a natural kind of guy. I don't style my hair - never learned how."

"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."

"I try not to set myself up as different or as a celebrity or special. I have a husband that can get on my nerves. I have kids that test my patience. I've got a cat I can't keep off the sofa. It's real. On a bad day, I'm reading 'Acts of Faith.'"

"I worry that business leaders are more interested in material gain than they are in having the patience to build up a strong organization, and a strong organization starts with caring for their people."

"I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key."

"I'm patient."

"I've been accused of riding roughshod over others' emotions, and I admit, when I feel a friend is being over-indulgent, my patience is in short supply."

"If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought."

"In this day and age, you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business."

"It is necessary for him who would endure existence with patience that he should conceive himself to be something - that he should be persuaded he is not a cipher in the muster-roll of man."

"It took me a while to learn the true meaning of patience and surrender, but I have finally accepted that healing doesn't happen on our schedule. It doesn't have a clock or a calendar."

"Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience."

"Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself."

"Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while."

"My mother is a ball of fire in the world, and I love that about her. But what I have learned from my stepdad is something as important, which is patience and compassion. Because when you are living with someone else, those two qualities go a long way."

"Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come."

"No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you."

"No one who strives with full faith and heart for the blessings of eternal life will be denied. And how great will be the joy and how much deeper the appreciation then after enduring in patience and faith now."