Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sri Chinmoy

Patience, increasing patience

Thomas Carlyle

Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.

Victoria Moran

If you've ever tried meditation and didn't stay with it, I recommend you try it again. Some time has passed. In the interim, you may have developed the discipline of mind or the patience you were short on before. Let these qualities aid your practice. (173)

Vicki Baum

patience is an integral part of talent.

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.

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.

Tom Lantos

The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited.

Steve Harvey

If you pray about it don't worry about it. If you're going to worry about it don't pray about it.

Vanessa Paradis

My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.

Stanley Baldwin

A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

Steven Pressfield

The professional arms himself with patience, not only to give the stars time to align in his career, but to keep himself from flaming out in each individual work.

Robert Browning

But there are times when patience proves at fault.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

T. Boone Pickens

I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.

T. S. Eliot

He who was living is now dead We who were living are now dying With a little patience.

Ray Harryhausen

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

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.

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.

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.

William Cobbett

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request. It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.

William Cobbett

It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.

Wayne Dyer

Infinite Patience brings Immediate Results.

Tyrone Power

I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.

William H. Gass

We have scarcely gotten home ... when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after waiting all day to do so. There is the bellyache and the burned-out basement bulb, the stalled car and the incontinent cat. The windows frost, the toilets sweat, the body of our spouse is one cold shoulder and the darkness of our bedroom is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures.

William Golding

He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.

William Arthur Ward

The more patient we are, the more understanding we become.