Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Kingsolver

Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.

Benjamin Disraeli

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

Baltasar Gracian

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.

Albert Einstein

When men are engaged in war and conquest, the tools of science become as dangerous as a razor in the hands of a child of three. We must not condemn man because his inventiveness and patient conquest of the forces of nature are being exploited for false and destructive purposes. Rather, we should remember that the fate of mankind hinges entirely upon man’s moral development.

Anthony Hamilton

I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.

D. H. Lawrence

She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.

Thomas Huxley

It does not matter how many tumbles you have in this life, so long as you do not get dirty when you tumble; it is only the people who have to stop to be washed and made clean, who must necessarily lose the race. And I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that which is of inestimable importance

Rumi

When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret here for anyone who can grasp it.

Steve Harvey

If you pray about it don't worry about it. If you're going to worry about it don't pray about it.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

He who says patience, says courage, endurance, strength.

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.

Frances O'Grady

My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange.

Fred Brooks

The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.

Franz Kafka

All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.

Franz Kafka

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

Harrison Ford

[On being an actor] .nothing more than a worker in a service occupation . It's like being a waiter or a gas station attendant, but I'm waiting on 6 million people in a week if I'm lucky.

Guy Kawasaki

Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.

Gertrude Jekyll

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.

Jamie Dixon

I didn't recognize our team on how we played early. Our patience wasn't there. Clearly, it wasn't our day.

Jack Campbell

He felt the comfort of being part of an eternal cycle symbolized by the gold strips on either side of the black mourning band he wore. Light, dark, light. The dark was just an interval.

Ira Gershwin

I'm bidin' my time, 'Cause that's the kinda guy I'm.

Bill Cowher

Mr. Rooney was very supportive through three non-playoff years (1998-2000), and I'm very appreciative of his patience.

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.

William Shenstone

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

William Golding

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

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.

I just say thanks for their patience. But I'm going to rebuild Eden.

Henry Rollins

I have not the smarts or patience for political office.

Mahatma Gandhi

To lose patience is to lose the battle.

John Ciardi

Patience is the art of caring slowly.

Evan Harris

Patience may be a virtue, but quitting is an art.