Patience famous quotes
05-19-2025
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A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?
-- Aaron Spelling -
Patience will benefit you in every hour, every time and every opportunity. It helps you to overcome your opponent, howsoever strong he may be. It will help you in times of distress and hardships, in battles and in war and peace.
-- Abd al-Karim Qasim -
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Waiting does not exist in the experience of those who recognize the presence of love wherever they are.
-- Alan Cohen -
Patience is like ice cold water running through your veins, but our love will be immense
-- Alejandro Perez -
Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.
-- Alice Walker -
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
-- Andre Gide -
A man without patience is a lamp without oil.
-- Andres Segovia -
Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?
-- Andrew Greeley -
Always remember that your humanity is what will touch the people of the world.
-- Ann M. Fudge -
Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper.
-- Anne Lamott -
The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.
-- Anthony Hamilton -
Don't try to rush things: for the cup to run over, it must first be filled.
-- Antonio Machado -
Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.
-- Aristotle -
Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
-- Baltasar Gracian -
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
-- Barbara Johnson -
Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Everything comes if a man will only wait.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
He that can have patience can have what he will.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
deferring gratification is a good definition of being civilized.
-- Bernice Fitz-Gibbon -
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
-- Bertrand Russell -
When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.
-- Beverly Cleary -
For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong.
-- Bill W. -
I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.
-- Bob Woodward -
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.
-- Bowie Kuhn -
Inner peace is impossible without patience. Wisdom requires patience. Spiritual growth implies the mastery of patience. Patience allows the unfolding of destiny to proceed at its won unhurried pace.
-- Brian Weiss -
The past is an illusion. You must learn to live in the present and accept yourself for what you are now. What you lack in flexibility and agility you must make up with knowledge and constant practice.
-- Bruce Lee -
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal.
-- Bryan Adams -
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
-- Bryan Adams -
We must understand that out of community and dialogue, the answers will arrive in their own time and way.
-- Bryant H. McGill -
One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.
-- Carl Hiaasen -
we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers
-- Carl Sagan -
Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.
-- Carl Sandburg -
When a painting problem crops up, don't rush to fix it. You probably already know one way to fix it, but wait for something else to show up... invite the muses to bring you a new solution.
-- Carole Katchen -
Patience is a virtue Savannah, to tolerate delay. It implies self control and forbearance, as opposed to wanting what we want when we want it. Something to think about. . .
-- Catherine Weaver -
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
-- Cesare Pavese -
The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards.
-- Charles Stanley -
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.
-- Charlie Chaplin -
My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years.
-- Christina Milian -
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.
-- Chuck Tanner -
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.
-- Cleveland Amory -
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.
-- Corazon Aquino -
When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.
-- Corrie Ten Boom -
Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually already insecure enough.
-- Criss Jami -
The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies.
-- Criss Jami -
I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.
-- Criss Jami -
With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
-- Daisaku Ikeda -
Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
-- Damian Lewis -
Peaceful warriors have the patience to wait until the mud settles and the water clears. They remain unmoving until the right time, so the right action arises by itself. They do not seek fulfillment, but wait with open arms to welcome all things.
-- Dan Millman -
I wish I was a shredder that could play everything, but I don't have the patience.
-- Dave Navarro -
The balance you have between drive and patience may be your master key to success.
-- David Allen -
I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.
-- David Duchovny -
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.
-- David Mallet -
Impatience makes us get ahead of ourselves, reaching out for something in the future and not really being content with where we are, here and now.
-- David Steindl-Rast -
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.
-- David Wilkerson -
If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.
-- Debra Winger -
I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.
-- Dick Dale -
Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly finished planting the shoot. But all too often the greedy eyes are only deceived; the fruit that seemed so precious is still green on the inside, and disrespected hands ungratefully toss aside what has so disappointed them.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer -
The real secret of patience is to find something to do in the meantime.
-- Doug Larson -
Sometimes you just have to be patient and brave and strong. If you don't know how, just make it up as you go along.
-- Douglas Pagels -
Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair.
-- Douglas William Jerrold -
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe -
Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on.
-- Edgar Degas -
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
-- Edith Sitwell -
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
-- Edmund Burke -
With patience everything comes in due season.
-- Edouard Rene de Laboulaye -
Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.
-- Eknath Easwaran -
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.
-- Elbert Hubbard -
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.
-- Elihu Root -
I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we are able to honestly to pray what He taught His disciples to pray: Thy will be done.
-- Elisabeth Elliot -
When I was 20, I thought I was 30 - but I was so far from it. When you're young, you want everything to happen now. As you mature, you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience.
-- Elisha Cuthbert -
I work with patience, which is almost power.
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
I worked with patience which means almost power.
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
And I must bear What is ordained with patience, being aware Necessity doth front the universe With an invincible gesture.
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
In your patience ye are strong.
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
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.
-- Elizabeth Edwards -
It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
-- Elizabeth Taylor -
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.
-- Ellen DeGeneres -
Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age.
-- Elliot Paul -
And then--a Day as huge As Yesterdays in pairs, Unrolled its horror in my face-- Until it blocked my eyes
-- Emily Dickinson -
No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
-- Epictetus -
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
-- Epictetus -
If you create you will also wait, and while you're waiting you will want to be patient but not idle... responses from the world often take a long time.
-- Eric Maisel -
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.
-- Ernie Banks -
The work that God does in us when we wait is usually more important than the thing for which we wait!
-- Erwin W. Lutzer -
Patience may be a virtue, but quitting is an art.
-- Evan Harris -
Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.
-- Evelyn Underhill
