Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Horace

What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.

Jack White

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

J. R. R. Tolkien

See your road through.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

George Eliot

The best fire doesna flare up the soonest.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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.

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.

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.

Plotinus

We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it, as the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.

Phillips Brooks

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

Judith Light

You have to find the peace and patience within yourself to be a model and an example to others and not judge.

Katherine Heigl

I'm terrible with patience.

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.

Tennessee Williams

The panic disappeared under those soothing old fingers and the breathing slowed down and stopped hurting the chest as if a fox was caught in it, and then at last Mr. Kroger began to lecture the boy as he used to, Pablo, he murmured, don't ever be so afraid of being lonely that you forget to be careful. Don't forget that you will find it sometimes but other times you won't be lucky, and those are the times when you have got to be patient, since patience is what you must have when you don't have luck.

Michel de Montaigne

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

Philip Sidney

Fortify courage with the true rampart of patience.

John Updike

There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam.

Miguel Syjuco

Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective.