Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Lee

The past is an illusion. You must learn to live in the present and accept yourself for what you are now. What you lack in flexibility and agility you must make up with knowledge and constant practice.

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.

Anne Lamott

Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper.

D. H. Lawrence

She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.

Dale Carnegie

In order to make friends you must first be friendly

Damian Lewis

Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.

Andres Segovia

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

Anthony Hamilton

I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.

Ambrose Bierce

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.

Alice Walker

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

A. A. Milne

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

Doug Larson

The real secret of patience is to find something to do in the meantime.

Douglas William Jerrold

Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair.

Dalai Lama

The enemy is the necessary condition for practicing patience.

David Wilkerson

A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don't have the patience to learn.

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.

Darrell Issa

I've said my patience is not infinite.

Cleveland Amory

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

Dan Millman

Peaceful warriors have the patience to wait until the mud settles and the water clears. They remain unmoving until the right time, so the right action arises by itself. They do not seek fulfillment, but wait with open arms to welcome all things.

Corrie Ten Boom

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

Andrew Greeley

Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?

Randy Moss

Just to see him come out here and work with us every day, have the patience with us every day, it's exciting.

Porter Goss

We've got to have some patience ... It's a tough job,

William Penn

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

Bill Cowher

He tests your patience. But I go with him because he's a gamer.

If that should not be, cousin, I say: patience and shuffle the cards.

Bryan Adams

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal.

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,

Bernard Barton

Patience wins the race.

Bill Vaughan

Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.

Bill Vaughan

Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request. One must seem to hear the unreasonable demands of the petulant, unmoved, and the tedious details of the dull, untired. That is the least price that a man must pay for a high station.