Patience Quotes

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.

Because I'm the author of my screenplays I know what I'm looking for. It's true that I can be stubborn in demanding that I get what I want, but it's also a question of working with patience and love.

I haven't got a lot of patience.

It's amazing. My kids have grown me in ways I never knew possible. The patience I've received and the love I get from them is just amazing.

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.

Patience was not my strong point.

The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.

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.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Beauty, unlike the rest of the gifts handed out at birth, does not require dedication, patience and hard work to pay off. But it's also the only gift that does not keep on giving.

I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.

I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project.

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

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

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.

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.

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?

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.

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.