Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shenstone

Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?

Samuel Johnson

In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause.

William H. Gass

We have scarcely gotten home ... when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after waiting all day to do so. There is the bellyache and the burned-out basement bulb, the stalled car and the incontinent cat. The windows frost, the toilets sweat, the body of our spouse is one cold shoulder and the darkness of our bedroom is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures.

William Golding

He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.

William Arthur Ward

The more patient we are, the more understanding we become.

William Feather

Whether it's marriage of business, patience is the first rule of success.

William Prescott

In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.

Wilkie Collins

This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

William Makepeace Thackeray

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?

Richard DeVos

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, ''Here comes number seventy-one!''

William James

If an unusual necessity forces us onward, a surprising thing occurs. The fatigue gets worse up to a certain point, when, gradually or suddenly, it passes away and we are fresher than before!

Morgan Freeman

The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.

Kevyn Aucoin

My entire mission in life is to help women take over the world. Not by force (the route so many men have taken since the beginning of time), but with compassion, perseverance, and love.

Henry David Thoreau

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

Manfred von Richthofen

Success flourishes only in perseverance ceaseless, restless perseverance.

Manny Pacquiao

Anyone will succeed in whatever field of endeavor in life by acquiring the same virtues and character that boxing world champions do - dedication, perseverance, courage, extreme self-discipline and prayers

James Russell Lowell

Endurance is the crowning quality...

Jon Foreman

Don't be discouraged, but know that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance brings character, and character brings hope, and this is a hope which will not disappoint us.

William Farmer

I think it'll be ok; I think by the end of this year, we won't be talking about PeopleSoft at all.

Bob Lachky

I think you're talking about a two-year play at least.

Stephen Smith

It is frustrating because we're not getting 10 to 12 inches. You're talking about 2 to 4 inches. We live in Wisconsin. It is not like this is unusual.

Chris Lofton

He was just talking about how he wished it would have worked out for me up here.

Jackie Gentry

I'd been talking about it for a long time.

Richard Ayoade

I'm just terrible. At talking. With words.

Umberto Eco

I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.

William Safire

I could get a better education interviewing John Steinbeck than talking to an English professor about novels.

William Shawcross

You cannot do justice to the dead. When we talk about doing justice to the dead we are talking about retribution for the harm done to them. But retribution and justice are two different things.