Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dale Carnegie

In order to make friends you must first be friendly

A. A. Milne

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

Avi

Writing takes a lot of patience. It usually takes me a year to write a book. One time, it took me 14 years to write a book, not that I worked on it every day.

Damian Lewis

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

Douglas William Jerrold

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

Andres Segovia

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

Phil Jackson

And then mentally, do I have the patience to see that through?

There's a project to be done all the time. Patience has been important.

Tommy Bowden

It's been six, seven years. I think I understand, but I'd like them to have patience, too, as I patiently wait.

Thomas Fuller

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

Thomas Fuller

Abused patience turns to fury.

Robert Towne

I started doing it and I couldn't stop. It really tired the patience of the people around me.

Carolyn Heilbrun

as the years go on a sense of deep patience comes over one; one seems to know the virtue of ripeness, and the danger of rushing events.

Evan Harris

Patience may be a virtue, but quitting is an art.

Muhammad Ali

Whoever knocks persistently, ends by entering.

Nicholas Brendon

Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off.

George Herbert

The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.

Jean de la Bruyere

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

Leonardo da Vinci

If you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. Let us hope that.

Leonardo da Vinci

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.