Patience Quotes

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.

That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people.

This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.

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.

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live.

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.

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.

I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.

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.

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.

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.

When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

Humility is attentive patience.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

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.

If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

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.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

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.

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.