Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jose Marti

Strength comes from waiting.

Kurt Busch

I guess good things come to those who wait.

Khaleda Zia

It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.

Louisa May Alcott

Be worthy love, and love will come.

Louisa May Alcott

Ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.

Hermann Hesse

To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Don't cross the bridge til you come to it.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

All things come round to him who will but wait.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Rule by patience, Laughing Water!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Let nothing disturb thee, Nothing affright thee; All things are passing; God never changeth; Patient endurance Attaineth to all things; Who God possesseth In nothing is wanting; Alone God sufficeth.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Patience; accomplish thy labor; accomplish thy work of affection! Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike. Therefore accomplish thy labor of love, till the heart is made godlike, Purified, strengthened, perfected, and rendered more worthy of heaven.

John Heywood

Don't put the cart before the horse.

John Heywood

The more haste, the less speed.

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.

Lord Chesterfield

In the course of the world, a man must very often put on an easy, frank countenance, upon very disagreeable occasions; he must seem pleased, when he is very much otherwise; he must be able to accost and receive with smiles, those whom he would much rather meet with swords.

Mahatma Gandhi

Patience means self-suffering.

Ellen DeGeneres

I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.

Emily Dickinson

And then--a Day as huge As Yesterdays in pairs, Unrolled its horror in my face-- Until it blocked my eyes

Laurell K. Hamilton

Patience is a virtue, but there comes a moment when you must stop being patient and take the day by the throat and shake it. If it fights back; fine. I'd rather end up bloody at the end of the day, then unhurt with no progress made, no knowledge gained. I'd rather have a no, then nothing. I'd forgotten that about myself.

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.

Simon Raven

And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust.