Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leonardo da Vinci

You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

Paul Gleason

My biggest weakness is patience, wanting to see things happen too quickly or get changes in place right away. Not having the patience to let things develop.

Leon Jouhaux

True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep.

Ovid

Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim. Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be beneficial.

Paul Bremer

I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here.

Ismail Haniyeh

When I said a few weeks ago that our people would eat cooking oil and olives if necessary, I didn't mean that there really would be only oil and olives. What I meant was that our people have the necessary patience to endure the current difficult situation. Palestinians would rather do without certain food items than their national rights.

Oprah Winfrey

Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment.

Margaret Atwood

Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.

Margaret Atwood

Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience?

Kenny Loggins

I've worked so hard to eliminate the inner geek from my life. I suddenly realize I have no patience for those people who still have their geeks showing. Now I see why being 'normal' has been so important to me.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides.

Gertrude Stein

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.

Jenny Agutter

I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer.

Jenny Nimmo

Waiting and hoping is a hard thing to do when you've already been waiting and hoping for almost as long as you can bear it.

Hart Crane

It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form.

Lyman Abbott

No man can be patient who has not strong passions, for patience is passion tamed.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

All things come to him who mates.

Erwin W. Lutzer

The work that God does in us when we wait is usually more important than the thing for which we wait!

If you're struggling or young, you couldn't have a better guy. Because he has unbelievable patience and perseverance.

George Eliot

There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.

George Eliot

It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience, That neither by hir wordes ne hir face Biforn the folk, ne eek in her absence, Ne shewed she that hir was doon offence.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I'll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.

Gary Paulsen

Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking.

Francis Bacon

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

Frances O'Grady

My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out.

George Washington

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

Franklin P. Adams

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Isaac Newton

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange.

Fred Brooks

The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.

Franz Kafka

All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.