Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isaac Newton

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

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.

I just say thanks for their patience. But I'm going to rebuild Eden.

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.

It takes patience because you have to be willing to get the wrong answers. But in the end, it's a better technique.

Louisa May Alcott

Be worthy love, and love will come.

Louisa May Alcott

Ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.

Ovid

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

Paulina Porizkova

Beauty, unlike the rest of the gifts handed out at birth, does not require dedication, patience and hard work to pay off. But it's also the only gift that does not keep on giving.

Paullina Simons

All good things come to those who wait.

Pauline Kael

It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.

Mary Pierce

Sometimes things aren't clear right away. That's where you need to be patient and persevere and see where things lead.

Philip Massinger

Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.

Paulo Coelho

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

Paulo Coelho

Why is patience so important?" "Because it makes us pay attention.

Peter Marshall

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

Phillips Brooks

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

George MacDonald

The principle part of faith is patience.

Elizabeth Gilbert

You can butcher the sheep only once. But if you are careful, you can shear the sheep every year.

Elisha Cuthbert

When I was 20, I thought I was 30 - but I was so far from it. When you're young, you want everything to happen now. As you mature, you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience.

Eknath Easwaran

Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.

Linda Hogan

There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.

Leo Tolstoy

everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait . . . there is nothing stronger than these two: patience and time, they will do it all.

Leo Tolstoy

The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

Lewis Carroll

No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.

Joyce Meyer

Patience is not just about waiting for something... it's about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

Peter Stuyvesant

Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear.

Peter S. Beagle

The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things...Things must happen when it is time for them to happen.

Pete Maravich

Character never quits; and with patience and persistence; Dreams do come true!

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Above all, trust in the slow work of God.