Patience Quotes
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They were running out of suspects and into dead ends. They were running into airtight alibis and out of patience. They were running up one-way alleys and phone bills. They were running down a killer who did not yet exist. They were running around in circles.
Ed McBain
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(Feedback) People become addicted to it. That’s why journalism is so popular, because you want to hear, every day, what people think of what you just wrote. I think a little patience on that front can be good, too.
Zadie Smith
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But my patience isn't limitless... unlike my authority.
Dan Abnett
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Kids teach you a lot of patience.
Mona Singh
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There are forces at work you do not perceive. I weave a delicate strategy which rash actions could rend. Patience, please.
Jim Starlin
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The most important benefit of patience consists in the way it acts as a powerful antidote to the affliction of anger.
Dalai Lama
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putting the government of Syria on notice that our patience has limits.
Jack Straw
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Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.
Meg Wheatley
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Have patience, heart.
Homer
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Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.
George Jackson
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O SON OF MAN! For everything there is a sign. The sign of love is fortitude under My decree and patience under My trials.
Bahá'u'lláh
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Patience is the direct antithesis of anger.
Allan Lokos
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The fruit of patience in all its aspects - long-suffering, forbearance, endurance, and perseverance - is a fruit that is most intimately associated with our devotion to God. All character traits of godliness grow out of and have their foundation in our devotion to God, but the fruit of patience must grow out of that relationship in a particular way.
Jerry Bridges
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A new moon teaches gradualness and deliberation and how one gives birth to oneself slowly. Patience with small details makes perfect a large work, like the universe.
Rumi
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In his home-life Turgot remained most frugal and laborious, treating his servants with a benevolence then accounted contemptible, and working out his quiet schemes with an infinite patience and thoroughness. When he was offered the richer Intendancy of Lyons, he would not take it. Here, as he said of himself, though he was 'the compulsory instrument of great evil,' he was doing a little good. Only a little, it might be. But if every man did the little he could — what a different world!
Evelyn Beatrice Hall
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There are very few things that I have any patience for that are not at least a little bit humorous.
Elif Batuman
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Patience is not a virtue!
Alan Chadwick
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It takes patience to become the best runner you can be. Top athletes realize that running is a long-term sport. It is set up for people who value delayed gratification and who like hard-earned success.
Anthony Famiglietti
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Be patient, if thou wouldst thy ends accomplish; for like patience is there no appliance effective of success, producing certainly abundant fruit of actions, never damped by failure, conquering all impediments.
J_K_Bharavi
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'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.
William Shakespeare
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There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.
J. G. Holland
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An unusual thing happened after that great first vision. The Prophet Joseph received no additional communication for three years. However, he did not wonder, he did not question, he did not doubt the Lord. The Prophet Joseph patiently waited. The Prophet Joseph taught us the principle of patience-by example.
Boyd K. Packer
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Abandon fancy theologies and imaginary ideas and do some ordinary daily work... {Engage in this work with} unswerving kindness and unending patience.
Lao Tzu
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Patience is sottish, and impatience does become a dog that's mad.
William Shakespeare