Famous Quotes & Sayings

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.

George W. Bush

I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.

George Tenet

To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days.

George Eliot

The best fire doesna flare up the soonest.

Jean de La Fontaine

Patience et longueur de temps Font plus que force ni que rage. Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.

Horace Bushnell

Christ commands you to take up His cross and follow Him, not that He may humble you, or lay some penance upon you, but that you may surrender the low self-will and the feeble pride of your sin, and ascend into the sublime patience of heavenly charity.

Horace Bushnell

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.

Horace

What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.

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.

Franz Kafka

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

Thomas Fuller

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

Thomas Fuller

Abused patience turns to fury.

We thank our riders for their patience and forbearance.

Robert Towne

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

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

Ernie Banks

People ask me a lot about the values I got from playing for the Cubs for so many years. The value I got out of it was patience. A lot of people these days are not very patient.

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.

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.

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.

Patience! Patience! Patience is the invention of dullards and sluggards. In a well-regulated world there should be no need of such a thing as patience.

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.

Horace

Patience makes lighter / What sorrow may not heal. ("sed levius fit patientia quidquid corrigere est nefas")

Horace

It is hard! But what can not be removed, becomes lighter through patience.

Homer

The fates have given mankind a patient soul.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

All things come to him who mates.

Ira Gershwin

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