Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength

Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

Bill Cowher

Patience is a virtue. If you have the right people.

Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

Haruki Murakami

This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be a long process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time.

William Shakespeare

That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.

William Shakespeare

Who can be patient in extremes?

William Shakespeare

He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding.

William Shakespeare

Like Patience gazing on kings' graves, and smiling Extremity out of act.

William Shakespeare

Had it pleas'd heaven To try me with affliction * * * I should have found in some place of my soul A drop of patience.

William Shakespeare

I do oppose My patience to his fury, and am arm'd To suffer, with a quietness of spirit, The very tyranny and rage of his.

William Shakespeare

Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.

William Shakespeare

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

Robert Browning

The are times when patience proves at fault.

Michael Chertoff

We are in the process of doing everything within our power to get resources down to the state of Florida, ... everybody's patience and forbearance.

Julie Gerberding

We know it's going to take time, ... It's requiring a lot of patience on everyone's part to get through this.

Guus Hiddink

Robert is on his way, but we need more time and patience,

Hermann Hesse

To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Don't cross the bridge til you come to it.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

All things come round to him who will but wait.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Rule by patience, Laughing Water!

Jose Marti

Strength comes from waiting.

Kurt Busch

I guess good things come to those who wait.

Khaleda Zia

It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.

Lord Chesterfield

In the course of the world, a man must very often put on an easy, frank countenance, upon very disagreeable occasions; he must seem pleased, when he is very much otherwise; he must be able to accost and receive with smiles, those whom he would much rather meet with swords.

Mahatma Gandhi

Patience means self-suffering.

Emily Dickinson

And then--a Day as huge As Yesterdays in pairs, Unrolled its horror in my face-- Until it blocked my eyes

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Let nothing disturb thee, Nothing affright thee; All things are passing; God never changeth; Patient endurance Attaineth to all things; Who God possesseth In nothing is wanting; Alone God sufficeth.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Patience; accomplish thy labor; accomplish thy work of affection! Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike. Therefore accomplish thy labor of love, till the heart is made godlike, Purified, strengthened, perfected, and rendered more worthy of heaven.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait -- not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.

Henri Nouwen

A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us.

Henry Ward Beecher

There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practice it while they hear. No man can learn patience except by going out into the hurlyburly world, and taking life just as it blows. Patience is but lying to, and riding out the gale.