I haven't got a lot of patience.
~By Jeffrey Katzenberg ~
Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.
~By Herman Hesse ~
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
~By John Updike ~
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
~By William Shakespeare ~
Thank God my parents had an abundance of patience.
~By Lexa Doig ~
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 ~
That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people.
~By Ray Harryhausen ~
Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.
~By Rita Mae Brown ~
I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here.
~By Paul Bremer ~
Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
~By Soren Kierkegaard ~
Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
~By Sammy Davis, Jr. ~
This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.
~By Wilkie Collins ~
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 ~
I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.
~By Tyrone Power ~
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 ~
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 ~
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
~By W. H. Auden ~
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 believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.
~By Bob Woodward ~
Endurance is patience concentrated.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.
~By Arnold H. Glasow ~
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 ~
Abused patience turns to fury.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
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 ~
Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.
~By Holbrook Jackson ~
Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.
~By Eknath Easwaran ~
Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
~By May Sarton ~
If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
~By Ilie Nastase ~
We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
~By Saint Francis de Sales ~
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 ~
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 ~
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
~By Laurence J. Peter ~
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 ~
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 ~
Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
He that can have patience can have what he will.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
Patience is the best medicine.
~By John Florio ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
~By John Burroughs ~
Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.
~By Kin Hubbard ~
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 ~
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
~By Larry Wall ~
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
~By Stanislaw Lec ~
Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
~By Titus Maccius Plautus ~
Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.
~By Guy Kawasaki ~
You have to find the peace and patience within yourself to be a model and an example to others and not judge.
~By Judith Light ~
I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.
~By Robert Falcon Scott ~
Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.
~By Ralph Fiennes ~
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 ~
Humility is attentive patience.
~By Simone Weil ~
I've worked so hard to eliminate the inner geek from my life. I suddenly realize I have no patience for those people who still have their geeks showing. Now I see why being 'normal' has been so important to me.
~By Kenny Loggins ~
Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
~By Abdus Salam ~
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
~By Jean de La Fontaine ~
Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
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.
~By Bowie Kuhn ~
Patience is passion tamed.
~By Lyman Abbott ~
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 ~
It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
~By Elizabeth Taylor ~
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.
~By Janet Napolitano ~
I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.
~By Dick Dale ~
So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won't have the patience to pick them out.
~By Martin Yan ~
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 ~
Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
~By Thomas Hardy ~
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 ~
All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.
~By Thomas Kempis ~
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
~By Hyman Rickover ~
Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand.
~By Edward Sapir ~
Patience is the art of hoping.
~By Luc de Clapier ~
Find patience in the breath of life.
~By Ryunosuke Satoro ~
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 ~
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 Morrow Lindbergh ~
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 ~
The greatest power is often simple patience.
~By E. Joseph Cossman ~
My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.
~By Robert Wise ~
There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.
~By Larry Hagman ~
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
~By Barbara Johnson ~
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 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.
~By Cleveland Amory ~
Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?
~By Andrew Greeley ~
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?
~By Aaron Spelling ~
Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.
~By Philip Massinger ~
Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest.
~By Jimmy Breslin ~
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 ~
Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear.
~By Peter Stuyvesant ~
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 ~
No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.
~By Star Jones ~
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
~By Franklin P. Jones ~
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age.
~By Elliot Paul ~
I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.
~By Anthony Hamilton ~
Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
~By Marianne Moore ~
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 ~
Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
~By William Penn ~
We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.
~By Muammar al Gaddafi ~
Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.
~By Peter Marshall ~
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