Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johann Kaspar Lavater

He surely is most in need of another's patience, who has none of his own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A leaf that is destined to grow large is full of grooves and wrinkles at the start. Now if one has no patience and wants it smooth offhand like a willow leaf, there is trouble ahead.

John Heywood

Don't put the cart before the horse.

John Heywood

The more haste, the less speed.

Benjamin Disraeli

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly finished planting the shoot. But all too often the greedy eyes are only deceived; the fruit that seemed so precious is still green on the inside, and disrespected hands ungratefully toss aside what has so disappointed them.

Phil Jackson

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

As coaches, we've got to have more patience.

A little calm, a little patience. The will of the people will be respected. The victory will not be stolen.

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.

Herman Melville

Great towers take time to construct.

Henry David Thoreau

Let things alone; let them weigh what they will; let them soar or fall.

Henry David Thoreau

You ask if there is no doctrine of sorrow in my philosophy. Of acute sorrow I suppose that I know comparatively little. My saddestand most genuine sorrows are apt to be but transient regrets. The place of sorrow is supplied, perchance, by a certain hard and proportionately barren indifference. I am of kin to the sod, and partake of its dull patience,--in winter expecting the sun of spring.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Patience patience quotes is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Jerry Garcia

I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project.

Jeremy Collier

Patient waiting is often the highest way of doing God's will.

Erwin W. Lutzer

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

Jack White

Your passion must be tempered with patience. Maybe long-suffering patience would be a better word.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Sometimes you have the feeling that some little imp is standing behind you and dictating to you, but he gives it to you slowly, drop by drop.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

Jeffrey Katzenberg

I haven't got a lot of patience.

Jim Bishop

When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?

Francois Rabelais

All's well in the end, if you've only the patience to wait.

Christina Milian

My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years.

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.

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.