Patience Quotes

The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.

All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.

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

Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?

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.

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.

My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.

In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It's a quiet, difficult undertaking, requiring subtlety in a filmmaker and perception and patience from us.

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.

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.

I'm terrible with patience.

I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.

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.

I have not the smarts or patience for political office.

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

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.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

I've said my patience is not infinite.

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

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.

I haven't been given many things, but I've been given ample, limitless patience.

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.

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?

My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years.