Patience Quotes

The master tools of success are invitation, patience, time, gentleness, cooperation, and surrender.

Fishing provides time to think, and reason not to. If you have the virtue of patience, an hour or two of casting alone is plenty of time to review all you’ve learned about the grand themes of life.

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.

So much saintlike patience cannot be good for anyone.

The hate which we all bear with the most Christian patience is the hate of those who envy us.

True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.

I believe that when Paul plants and Apollos waters, God gives the increase; and I have no patience with those who throw the blame on God when it belongs to themselves.

There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago.

In the NBA, it's about patience.

Lydia was the kind of friend whom people referred to as a 'party favor' -- always fun to be around but she doesn't have any patience for suffering unless it's her own.

Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience.

The secret to a happy marriage is patience and honesty. I really mean that. You have to be patient, you have to be open, and you also have to be available for criticism, too.

The patience is in the living. Time opens out to you.

Everyone else had the look of tired patience people always got when listening to a sermon, no matter what the century.

Because I frequently encountered obstacles such as old, entrenched ideas, ongoing power struggles, or the lack of staff and money, I also learned to develop patience and detachment.

Determination, however, can take the place of patience, if earnestly applied.

One should feel inside oneself for right and wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God.

Few of us have the necessary unselfishness to hear with gladness the talents of others extolled or to listen with patience to the successes of those whom we despise—Vivian

From adversity we can learn the value of patience.

It is... very helpful to think of adversity not so much as a threat to our peace of mind but rather as the very means by which patience is attained.

Better grounded emotionally through patience, we become stronger mentally and spiritually, and tend to be healthier physically.

Infinite altruism is the basis of peace and happiness. If you want altruism, you must control hate and you must practice patience. The main teachers of patience are our enemies.

It's so important that your doctor take a patience's values, not his, into consideration, along with the risks and benefits of treatment when there is a question to a doctor "What would you do?".

Patience is fine, but I'm not going to stop asking the Universe to make sense!

Desire for an idea is like bait. When you're fishing, you have to have patience. You bait your hook, and then you wait. The desire is the bait that pulls those fish in-those ideas.

Time changes everything, but with patience we can keep our desires relatively constant. If we can just hang on long enough, time will eventually create for us the conditions in which we can succeed.

Politics takes patience, time, listening and endless meetings.

The era of strategic patience with the North Korean regime has failed. Many years, and it's failed. And, frankly, that patience is over.

I have embraced crying mothers who have lost their children because our politicians put their personal agendas before the national good. I have no patience for injustice.

The rules of marriage were simple and easy to follow: faithfulness, patience, compromise. But there were no rules to divorce, or if there were, he had not yet discovered them.

Like theatre, crafting a documentary film takes tremendous commitment, patience and passion.

I almost did the knee-jerk thing of saying Judge Judy is funny to me, but I just don't have the patience for the format of that show.

To toughen up, is to calm down.

Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair.

Biding one's time is a very different thing from patience.

With patience everything comes in due season.

Passion, sexual passion, may lead to marriage, but cannot sustain marriage. The purpose of marriage is the raising of children, for which patience, not passion, is the necessary foundation.

There is one form of hope which is never unwise, and which certainly does not diminish with the increase of knowledge. In that form it changes its name, and we call it patience.

We are ruled by chance but never have enough patience to accept its despotism.

I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.

Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand.

I work with patience, which is almost power.

We must let patience have its perfect work, remembering that there are precious promises in the Scriptures for those who wait upon the Lord.

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

Through [my children] patience, they're showing me how much they support what's going on, because I'm having to do a lot of work right now.

Kindness and patience were always called for.

Any artwork needs time and patience and needs above a quiet mind.

By perfecting the practices of zazen and mindfulness, by learning patience and love and by realizing the essential emptiness of all phenomena, you will discover nirvana.

Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!

You know, I lose patience really easily; I'd rather shop in the grocery store than in the department store. I can pick an apple like nobody's business.