Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Bram Stoker

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

David Allen

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

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.

Jane Austen

She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.

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.

Elihu Root

Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.

Bowie Kuhn

So it's been a slow process and it's taken some patience. That's why patients are called patients I think - patience is required.

Barbara Johnson

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

Barbara Kingsolver

Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.

Mahmoud Abbas

This pullout is a result of our sacrifice, of our patience, the sacrifice of our people, the steadfastness, and the wise people of our nation,

The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.

Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.

Patience has tender feet.

Patience is moral elasticity.

All things come to him who waits - even justice.

Juvenal

Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.

Carl Hiaasen

One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.

B. C. Forbes

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

Arthur Helps

It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown.

Charles Spurgeon

The disciples of a patient Saviour should be patient themselves.

Debra Winger

If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.

William Shakespeare

O gentle son, / Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper, sprinkle cool patience.

Until now, we had a lot of patience, but patience is running out,

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.