Famous Quotes & Sayings

Franz Kafka

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

Harrison Ford

[On being an actor] .nothing more than a worker in a service occupation . It's like being a waiter or a gas station attendant, but I'm waiting on 6 million people in a week if I'm lucky.

Guy Kawasaki

Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.

Gertrude Jekyll

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.

Jamie Dixon

I didn't recognize our team on how we played early. Our patience wasn't there. Clearly, it wasn't our day.

Jack Campbell

He felt the comfort of being part of an eternal cycle symbolized by the gold strips on either side of the black mourning band he wore. Light, dark, light. The dark was just an interval.

Ira Gershwin

I'm bidin' my time, 'Cause that's the kinda guy I'm.

Miguel de Cervantes

Patience and shuffle the cards.

John Tillotson

Great is the advantage of patience.

Martin Luther

Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make people impatient, but proves that they are impatient. So everyone may learn from tribulation how his heart is constituted.

Michelle Obama

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

He who says patience, says courage, endurance, strength.

Markus Zusak

Because you don't learn anything unless you can find the patience to read. TV takes that away from you. It robs you from your mind.

Theophile Gautier

The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought to have spent in solitude and meditation, in endeavoring to make myself worthy of being loved.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.

Margaret Fuller

Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all.

Kin Hubbard

Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.

May Sarton

We can do anything, or almost, but how balanced, magnanimous, and modest one has to be to do anything! And also how patient. It is as true in the arts as anywhere else.

Matthew Arnold

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

Maya Angelou

Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.

Pablo Neruda

Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness.

Plato

Better to complete a small task well, than to do much imperfectly.

John Ruskin

There's no music in rest, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody, always talking of perseverance and courage and fortitude; but patience is the finest and worthiest part of fortitude, and the rarest, too.

John Ruskin

Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time, and not be discouraged at the rests. If we say sadly to ourselves, "There is no music in a rest," let us not forget " there is the making of music in it." The making of music is often a slow and painful process in this life. How patiently God works to teach us! How long He waits for us to learn the lesson!

John Ruskin

On the whole, it is patience which makes the final difference between those who succeed or fail in all things. All the greatest people have it in an infinite degree, and among the less, the patient weak ones always conquer the impatient strong.

John Milton

We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it. Abraham Lincoln, White House speech 11 April 1865. Or arm th' obdured breast With stubborn patience as with triple steel.

John Milton

But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience.

John Milton

They also serve who only stand and wait.

John Milton

This having learnt, thou hast attained the sum Of wisdom; hope no higher, though all the stars Thou knew'st by name, and all th'ethereal powers, All secrets of the deep, all nature's works, Or works of God in heav'n, air, earth, or sea, And all the riches of this world enjoy'dst, And all the rule, one empire; onlyadd Deeds to thy knowledge answerable, add faith, Add virtue, patience, temperance, add love, By name to come called charity, the soul Of all the rest: then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A paradise within thee, happier far.

John Milton

Arm the obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel.

Miguel de Cervantes

Digo, paciencia y barajar. What I say is, patience, and shuffle the cards.

Markus Zusak

He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world. She was the book thief without the words. Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like rain.