Patience Quotes

• When you're short on sleep, you're short on patience. You're ruder to people, less tolerant, less understanding. It's harder to relate and to pay attention for sustained periods of time.

  

  Jason Fried
  • People
  • Time
  • Attention

• When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and Nineties, I learnt the meaning of patience. And when I worked with trees, I learned the meaning of humility.

  

  James Balog
  • Patience
  • Humility

• It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Death
  • Patience

• Does anyone want to see a person who's making the money that the newspapers say I'm making complaining, 'Woe is me, my life is terrible, and people are being unfair?' No one would've had any patience for that. I wouldn't have any patience for that.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • People
  • Life
  • Money

• Prison itself is a tremendous education in the need for patience and perseverance. It is above all a test of one's commitment.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Education
  • Commitment
  • Perseverance

• On my best days, I fancy myself a combination of Dad's persistence/patience and Mom's toughness/skepticism.

  

  David Einhorn
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Persistence

• 'Satan is a tool of God's love in the sense that he forces us to see God's loving patience.' - Answers to 200 of Life's most Probing Questions

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Life
  • God
  • Satan

• Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.

  

  Andrew Bird
  • History
  • Patience

• A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heaven
  • Lows
  • Grants

• Avowed work, even when uncongenial, is far less trying to patience than feigned pleasure.

  

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Pleasure

• I'm a big researcher. I love libraries and archives and I have a huge National Geographiccollection. I have a good amount of books and records, and I'm on the Internet. I think research yields a lot and can help you pull different discordant works that may not be harmonious. Through time and with patience and focus, you bring them all together.

  

  Xaviera Simmons
  • Time
  • Good
  • Different

• The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.

  

  Arnold H. Glasow
  • Patience

• We all start out with no discipline, no patience, no perseverance, no determination. We all start out at zero. People say, 'You have talent.' No, the gift is to realize that we all start out even. Whether we messed up or put our best foot forward, with these four qualities, we take care of our mental, physical and spiritual health each day. Am I the best in the world? No. The question is: Am I the best I can be?

  

  Edward James Olmos
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I need a close contact to the client, whoever it is, and a commitment of the client to go out and do a process together. I want to do the best for him. I need his respect and his patience. I want to work with a sophisticated person who's interested in a good building and not in my name.

  

  Peter Zumthor
  • Good
  • Work
  • Together

• In my experience, not just in shooting films but in the commercials I've done, initially, it's very exciting for the community, and its a real novelty. Very quickly, though, they realize there's a buck to be had, and it becomes annoying, and they lose their patience pretty quick.

  

  John Curran
  • Real
  • Done
  • Experience

• What David is, is a very, very good route runner, ... He's showed that he's got patience. He's got really good hints, which normally means you're a real good route runner, when you can go in there and just have a natural way of selling something. All it is is a little hint, but you see the defender take a big bite off of it. He's got real good instincts that way, and he's been around a long time and is just one of the hardest-working, high-quality guys you want to be around.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• I tell people a lot of times, if you want to be a part of something, you never know, you kind of just have to be around. A lot of people don't really have the patience for it, and they don't stick around. Dre and I are still working together, and we have plenty of music for the future.

  

  Anderson Paak
  • People
  • Music
  • Together

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

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Writing
  • Patience
  • Cleverness

• I started 'SNL,' and I became the one who did impressions. I did that, but then I wanted to get an original character on, and that took a long time to get one on that stuck. And then I got Vinny Vedecci on - 'Oh great' - and then it took a couple more seasons to get Greg the Alien on. You have to have some patience.

  

  Bill Hader
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

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

  

  William Golding
  • Sea
  • Sail
  • Woven

• Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot hurt you; in the same way increase your patience under great offences, and they cannot hurt your feelings.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Great
  • Hurt
  • Cold

• Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Patience
  • Reap
  • Sown

• I'm constantly looking for ways to learn and elevate your craft, patience for yourself, and patience for this business. It's not a fair business. You may be great, but it may take years for someone to notice what you're capable of because of politics.

  

  Aldis Hodge
  • Great
  • May
  • Business

• When I was 20, I thought I was 30 - but I was so far from it. When you're young, you want everything to happen now. As you mature, you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience.

  

  Elisha Cuthbert
  • Time
  • Great
  • Patience

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