Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Yan

So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won't have the patience to pick them out.

Michael Chiklis

Patience has never been my strong suit.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

He who says patience, says courage, endurance, strength.

Markus Zusak

Because you don't learn anything unless you can find the patience to read. TV takes that away from you. It robs you from your mind.

Theophile Gautier

The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought to have spent in solitude and meditation, in endeavoring to make myself worthy of being loved.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.

Margaret Fuller

Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all.

Kin Hubbard

Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.

Miguel Syjuco

Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective.

John Updike

There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam.

James Robertson

There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence.

James Russell Lowell

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

Laurence Sterne

When the precipitancy of a man's wishes hurries on his ideas ninety times faster than the vehicle he rides in--woe be to truth!

Larry Hagman

There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.

Henry Rollins

I have not the smarts or patience for political office.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against. If one were able to manage this one would not need to cultivate great power; even one's presence would be healing.

Mahatma Gandhi

To lose patience is to lose the battle.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.

John Ciardi

Patience is the art of caring slowly.

Ray Harryhausen

That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people.

Randy Travis

I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.

Star Jones

No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.

Soren Kierkegaard

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

William Wordsworth

Before us lay a painful road, And guidance have I sought in duteous love From Wisdom's heavenly Father. Hence hath flowed Patience, with trust that, whatsoe'er the way Each takes in this high matter, all may move Cheered with the prospect of a brighter day.

William Shenstone

Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?

William Faulkner

And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.

William Faulkner

A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.

Wil Wheaton

My wife is the most awesome person in the universe. She's made this experience much less miserable for me, with her compassion, patience and understanding.

Saint Francis de Sales

Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

Rob Thomas

Ever since I can remember, I've always wanted to tell stories, but I never had the patience to sit down at a typewriter and write short stories or anything like that. I started writing songs as a way of communicating ideas the best way I could.

Thomas Perry

Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.

Robert H. Schuller

Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods.

Robert H. Schuller

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.