Patience Quotes

"Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson."

"As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want."

"I have an equal amount of patience as my grade-school children, which is not great."

"Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense."

"Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath."

"I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life."

"I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people."

"It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness."

"The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis."

"The biggest challenge, I think for any new artist, is patience."

"patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue."

"The problem is, when you come back in you're sweating, so I wait until the very last minute before putting on my shirt so that it's not covered in sweat."

"The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won't tolerate this violence and to know how to deal with it."

"Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them."

"If anyone believes that our smiles involve abandonment of the teaching of Marx, Engels, and Lenin he deceives himself poorly. Those who wait for that must wait until a shrimp learns to whistle."

"When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped."

"Your brand is your public identity, what you're trusted for. And for your brand to endure, it has to be tested, redefined, managed, and expanded as markets evolve. Brands either learn or disappear."

"There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration."

"When life is miserable it is painful to endure it; when it is happy it is horrible to lose it; both come to the same thing. Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep."

"There are a lot of things that frustrate me. I get frustrated when I have to wait at a red light."

"Very often, writing a song is a process that happens to me rather than one that I instigate. I feel a song coming on and, like a sneeze; I wait for it until it comes."

"Most African women are taught to endure abusive marriages. They say endurance means a good wife but most women endure abusive relationship because they are not empowered economically; they depend on their husbands."

"Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures."

"I worry that business leaders are more interested in material gain than they are in having the patience to build up a strong organization, and a strong organization starts with caring for their people."

"One out of three hundred and twelve Americans is a bore…and a healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience."

"In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth."

"The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it."

"In a time of transition for journalism all around the world, it's reassuring to know that some of the old ways endure."

"If you wait until the right time to have a child you'll die childless, and I think film making is very much the same thing. You just have to take the plunge and just start shooting something even if it's bad."

"Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything because He Himself, Who is perfect man, empowers me."

"We will wait to see if it is a doozy before we decide how to cover it, and what it all means."

"At synods, I usually wait about a week before I speak. First I listen. I feel the temperature. I listen to what has been said, what has not been said, and what I think needs to be said at that point."

"We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure."

"America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud."

"I've been working straight since 2003, so I might just want to take an improv or theater class. That excites me. I can't wait to do different characters - not necessarily the leading chick who gets the guy, but the weird, freaky cousin."

"Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold."

"When I'm performing for the people, I am me, then. I am that little girl who, when she was five years old, used to sing at church. Or I'm that 15-year-old young lady who wanted to be grown and wanted to sing and couldn't wait to be smokin' a cigarette, you know?"

"The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity."

"It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting."

"Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down."

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

"Caltech is a very adventurous place. Part of the culture is that we tolerate people doing things that seem impossible, and also synthesizing and borrowing ideas across very kooky and unusual boundaries."

"If you are fearful, a horse will back off. If you are calm and confident, it will come forward. For those who are often flattered or feared, the horse can be a welcome mirror of the best in human nature."

"I don't want to say I can't wait to get back to normal life, because I don't. I don't want to get back to normal life."

"I don't want to sound too critical, but we're taking a wait-and-see approach on UltraViolet."

"Just look at my face. Its an extraordinary experience. All of my friends who are grandparents have been saying, just wait, a bit cynically, but its just extraordinary. You feel like a child again yourself. Just walking on air."

"Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent."

"I don't have to try to be perfect because I know that my fans like me for who I am. They like me because I am weird and kind of funky, but still really calm."

"A calm despair, without angry convulsions and without reproaches toward heaven, is wisdom itself."

"Sooner or later something had to give. But President Bush, faced with the unprecedented affront of 9-11, could not wait to take action. So he had to do what we were capable of doing, and he did it brilliantly."