Category: Quotes About Patience

Hopelessness has surprised me with patience. -Margaret J. Wheatley

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. -George W. Bush

Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience. -Kin Hubbard

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

The greatest power is often simple patience. -E. Joseph Cossman

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. -Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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. -Martin Yan

It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy. -Khaleda Zia

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. -Jean de la Bruyere

True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep. -Leon Jouhaux

There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance. -Cesar Chavez

Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it. Obviously, it's a challenge - but if you're not taking the bull by the horns, I have no patience for you. You're just taking up space. -Melissa Rosenberg

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

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. -Charles Sturt

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

Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required. -Yiannis Stournaras

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

It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad. -Julie Bowen

Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill. -Gail Simmons

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm. -Mahatma Gandhi

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