John Quincy Adams Quotes

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

John Quincy Adams

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• Patience is the companion of wisdom.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Wisdom
  • Patience
  • Companion

• I feel alive inside only when obstacles are arising that must be overcome and eliminated.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Alive
  • Obstacles
  • Overcome

• A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Purpose
  • Sacrifice
  • Innovation

• Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Patience
  • Alcohol
  • Stupidity

• 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.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • God
  • Remember
  • Death

• I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Movies
  • Patience
  • Boring

• For believers, both privilege and privation are a trial, and both demand responses: one demands service, and the other demands patience. The greatest privilege is to live well in flourishing lands; the greatest privation is to live in the midst of war, especially civil war.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Live
  • War
  • Service

• I never felt the need to introduce all the obstacles in my past when I say, 'Hello, my name is Nate.' But at the same time, I've never hidden from it.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Time
  • Past
  • Obstacles

• With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • Political
  • Respect
  • Attention

• Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give?

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Money
  • Power
  • Nature

• I will exercise patience and will provide all facts to the general public.

  

  Yingluck Shinawatra
  • Exercise
  • Facts
  • Patience

• Acting is equal parts talent and perseverance.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • Acting
  • Talent
  • Perseverance

• The development of the New Architecture encountered serious obstacles at a very early stage of its development. Conflicting theories and the dogmas enunciated in architects' personal manifestos all helped to confuse the main issue.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Serious
  • Architecture
  • Obstacles

• When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Great
  • Small
  • Courage

• When you are starting to run an online business, you need to narrow down a niche market and be able to stick with it until you have a good profit coming in. This can take a while, so you need to have a great deal of patience to make sure that your business is moving in the right direction.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Good
  • Great
  • Business

• Well, you've got certain obstacles that get in your way throughout your career, but you have to be a strong individual.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Career
  • Strong
  • Obstacles

• History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • History
  • Obstacles
  • Winners

• There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Life
  • Patience
  • Little

• 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
  • People
  • Communication
  • Patience

• I think when YouTube first came out, everyone was thinking people were just going to watch five-minute shows from now on and that people didn't have the patience anymore to watch longer programmes. But instead, everyone is binge watching and consuming ten-hour programmes and box sets of shows, so it is really interesting.

  

  O. T. Fagbenle
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Interesting

• Like most Englishmen, he felt something strongly, and proceeded to muddle around until he had, somehow or other, cleared up the mess.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Up

• The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Human
  • Someone
  • Trusting

• It's a trip to have a Greatest Hits record. It's a trip.

  

  Lenny Kravitz

• Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

  

  John Quincy Adams
  • Patience
  • Obstacles
  • Perseverance