Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leonardo da Vinci

You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

Paul Gleason

My biggest weakness is patience, wanting to see things happen too quickly or get changes in place right away. Not having the patience to let things develop.

Leon Jouhaux

True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep.

Ismail Haniyeh

When I said a few weeks ago that our people would eat cooking oil and olives if necessary, I didn't mean that there really would be only oil and olives. What I meant was that our people have the necessary patience to endure the current difficult situation. Palestinians would rather do without certain food items than their national rights.

There's a project to be done all the time. Patience has been important.

Randy Johnson

Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.

Randy Pausch

Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress you.

The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

Rainer Maria Rilke

I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything!

Rainer Maria Rilke

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

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.

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.

Miguel de Cervantes

Patience and shuffle the cards.

John Tillotson

Great is the advantage of patience.

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.

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.

Philip Sidney

Fortify courage with the true rampart of 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.

Michael Haneke

Because I'm the author of my screenplays I know what I'm looking for. It's true that I can be stubborn in demanding that I get what I want, but it's also a question of working with patience and love.

Masashi Kishimoto

There's no advantage to hurrying through life." -Shikamaru Nara

Mason Cooley

Great men wait for the right moment to abandon caution. The rest of us abandon it when impatience becomes too much for us.