Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Stanley

The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards.

Charles Spurgeon

Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the blows that the hammer could place upon it. The patience of the saints was stronger than the cruelty of tyrants.

Carl Sagan

we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers

Cesare Pavese

Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.

Carl Hiaasen

One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait for.

William Shakespeare

Patience is sottish, and impatience does become a dog that's mad.

William Shakespeare

A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience.

Bob Woodward

I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.

Beverly Cleary

When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

deferring gratification is a good definition of being civilized.

Edith Sitwell

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

David Duchovny

I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.

Dick Dale

I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.

Edgar Degas

Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I worked with patience which means almost power.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

And I must bear What is ordained with patience, being aware Necessity doth front the universe With an invincible gesture.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

In your patience ye are strong.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I work with patience, which is almost power.

Aaron Spelling

A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?

Charlotte Bronte

It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.

Scott Young

What makes Beaty so tough is his patience,

Benjamin Franklin

Don't halloo until you're out of the wood.

Benjamin Franklin

By diligence and patience, the mouse bit in two the cable.

Baltasar Gracian

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.

William Shakespeare

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

William Shakespeare

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

William Shakespeare

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

David Allen

The balance you have between drive and patience may be your master key to success.

Abraham Lincoln

We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

Alexandra Stoddard

Slow down. Calm down. Don't worry. Don't hurry. Trust the process.

Karl Hobbs

Let's have some poise. Let's have some patience.

Bram Stoker

He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.