Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Greene

Hasty climbers have sudden falls.

Samuel Johnson

In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause.

Samuel Johnson

For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.

Samuel Johnson

To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.

Sarah Orne Jewett

There was a patient look on the old man's face, as if the world were a great mistake and he had nobody with whom to speak his own language or find companionship.

Vincent McNabb

There are no short cuts to Heaven, only the ordinary way of ordinary things.

William Feather

Whether it's marriage of business, patience is the first rule of success.

William Prescott

In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.

Wilkie Collins

This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

Willie Aames

God gives me the children's ministry heart and patience. This is what He wants. It's awesome. I don't know where He's gonna take it - but God is building this thing.

Woodrow Wilson

All things come to him who waits

Woodrow Wilson

All things come to him who waits - provided he knows what he is waiting for.

Virginia Woolf

Well, we must wait for the future to show.

Wesley Morris

In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It's a quiet, difficult undertaking, requiring subtlety in a filmmaker and perception and patience from us.

Ralph Fiennes

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.

Thomas Aquinas

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

Tertullian

Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.

Tertullian

Patience is God's nature.

Tertullian

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

Tennessee Williams

The panic disappeared under those soothing old fingers and the breathing slowed down and stopped hurting the chest as if a fox was caught in it, and then at last Mr. Kroger began to lecture the boy as he used to, Pablo, he murmured, don't ever be so afraid of being lonely that you forget to be careful. Don't forget that you will find it sometimes but other times you won't be lucky, and those are the times when you have got to be patient, since patience is what you must have when you don't have luck.

Lexa Doig

Thank God my parents had an abundance of patience.

Lawrence G. Lovasik

The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.

Marcus Aurelius

All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.

Thomas a Kempis

Dispose thyself to patience rather than to comfort, and to the bearing of the cross rather than to gladness.

Thomas a Kempis

All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.

Samuel Johnson

Patience and submission are very carefully to be distinguished from cowardice and indolence. We are not to repine, but we may lawfully struggle; for the calamities of life, like the necessities of Nature, are calls to labor and diligence.

Robert Falcon Scott

I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

Saadi

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

Swami Vivekananda

Wait with patience and love and strength. If helpers are not ready now, they will come in time. Why should we be in a hurry? The real working force of all great work is in its almost unperceived beginnings.

Swami Vivekananda

Infinite patience, infinite purity, and infinite perseverance are the secret of success in a good cause.

Swami Vivekananda

The fruit falls from the tree when it gets ripe. So wait for the time to come. Do not hurry. Moreover, no one has the right to make others miserable by his foolish acts. Wait, have patience, everything will come right in time.

Swami Vivekananda

Purity, patience and perseverance are the three essentials to success and above all love.