Patience Quotes (164)
Quotes and citations about patience
God gives me the children's ministry heart and patience. This is what He wants. It's awesome. I don't know where He's gonna take it-but God is building this thing... view
By: Willie Aames
Patience is passion tamed... view
By: Lyman Abbott
Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open... view
By: Gerry Adams
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish... view
By: John Quincy Adams
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... view
By: Jenny Agutter
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... view
By: Cleveland Amory
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... view
By: Thomas Aquinas
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... view
By: Corazon Aquino
Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair... view
By: Matthew Arnold
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return... view
By: W. H. Auden
Patience is the companion of wisdom... view
By: Saint Augustine
Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul... view
By: Francis Bacon
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... view
By: Abu Bakr
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... view
By: Ernie Banks
Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while... view
By: Ambrose Bierce
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue... view
By: Ambrose Bierce
When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?.. view
By: Jim Bishop
If public opinion still endorses military action that's one thing, but if they wait maybe it will not. So it's not only impatience, but there are several other factors... view
By: Hans Blix
He preacheth patience that never knew pain... view
By: H. G. Bohn
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence... view
By: Hal Borland
If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees... view
By: Hal Borland
It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad... view
By: Julie Bowen
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... view
By: Paul Bremer
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... view
By: Jimmy Breslin
Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience... view
By: Rita Mae Brown
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... view
By: Thomas Edward Brown
Our patience will achieve more than our force... view
By: Edmund Burke
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... view
By: George W. Bush
It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience... view
By: Julius Caesar
Endurance is patience concentrated... view
By: Thomas Carlyle
God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction... view
By: Richard Cecil
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose... view
By: Charlie Chaplin
There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance... view
By: Cesar Chavez
Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request... view
By: Lord Chesterfield
Patience is sorrow's salve... view
By: Charles Churchill
Patience is the art of hoping... view
By: Luc de Clapier
This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve... view
By: Wilkie Collins
Patience is the support of weakness.. view
By: Charles Caleb Colton
Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily... view
By: James J. Corbett
The greatest power is often simple patience... view
By: E. Joseph Cossman