Joyce Meyer Quotes

Patience is not the ability to wait but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.

Joyce Meyer

• Waiting
• Attitude
• Ability
• Patience

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• There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • People
  • Positive
  • Attitude

• If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Best
  • Positive
  • Effort

• If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Way
  • Ability
  • Gentleman

• Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Words
  • Attitude
  • Leadership

• The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Up
  • World
  • Long

• I love the way Tyra Banks dresses up - she looks so elegant and glamorous in whatever she wears. The confidence and attitude she exudes on and off the ramp is remarkable.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Up
  • Love
  • She

• Pluripotent cells have the ability to grow into any cell in the body.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Body
  • Ability
  • Grow

• But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Life
  • Death
  • Waiting

• Our patience will achieve more than our force.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Force
  • Patience
  • Achieve

• I don't know that I have any role models now that are fixed. Definitely my mom - she's the coolest. She's worked really hard her whole life and I just think she's got a great attitude. Moms just know so much it's so silly.

  

  Larisa Oleynik
  • Life
  • Mom
  • Attitude

• I have a great ability to improvise verbally, and I am very funny on a dime.

  

  Kate Braverman
  • Ability
  • Improvise
  • Verbally

• Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Time
  • Fear
  • Waiting

• Mankind is supposed to have evolved in the treetops. But I have examined my sense of balance, the prehensility of my various appendages, and my attitude toward standing on anything higher than, say, political principles, and I have concluded that, personally, I evolved in the backseat of a car.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Political
  • Car
  • Balance

• Cynicism is often seen as a rebellious attitude in western popular culture, but in reality, our cynicism advances the desires of the powerful: cynicism is obedience.

  

  Alex Steffen
  • Reality
  • Culture
  • Powerful

• I keep waiting, like in the cartoons, for an anvil to drop on my head.

  

  Angie Harmon
  • Waiting

• Waiting is the great vocation of the dispossessed.

  

  Mary Gordon
  • Great
  • Waiting

• Where the 'Bay of Pigs' invasion failed, undoubtedly the tourist invasion will succeed in forever changing the landscape of island. What comes next in Cuba? The answer is that many Cubans aren't waiting around to find out.

  

  Brin-Jonathan Butler
  • Forever
  • Waiting

• Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Life
  • Waiting

• I had piercings all over my face, which did look dreadful, but I got them done while waiting for my husband Michael to get a tattoo. I was bored.

  

  Pete Burns
  • Done
  • Waiting
  • Husband

• The existential attitude is one of involvement in contrast to a merely theoretical or detached attitude. 'Existential' in this sense can be defined as participating in a situation, especially a cognitive situation, with the whole of one’s existence.

  

  Paul Tillich
  • Attitude

• Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in

  

  William Cowper
  • Fall
  • Waiting
  • Tea

• No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Life
  • Age
  • Unique

• After Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, I was heartened to see him issue an Open Government Initiative on his first full day in office.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Presidential

• Patience is not the ability to wait but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.

  

  Joyce Meyer
  • Waiting
  • Attitude
  • Ability