Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hazrat Inayat Khan

The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against. If one were able to manage this one would not need to cultivate great power; even one's presence would be healing.

Mahatma Gandhi

To lose patience is to lose the battle.

James Robertson

There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence.

James Russell Lowell

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

Laurence Sterne

When the precipitancy of a man's wishes hurries on his ideas ninety times faster than the vehicle he rides in--woe be to truth!

Larry Hagman

There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.

John Ciardi

Patience is the art of caring slowly.

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

It takes patience because you have to be willing to get the wrong answers. But in the end, it's a better technique.

Alan Cohen

Waiting does not exist in the experience of those who recognize the presence of love wherever they are.

Carolyn Heilbrun

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.

Evan Harris

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

Ovid

Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim. Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be beneficial.

Paul Bremer

I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here.

Marshall Field

More things to remember: 7) The value of time; 8) The pleasure of working; 9) The obligation of duty; 10) The power of kindness; 11) The wisdom of economy; 12) The virtue of patience.

Muhammad Ali

Whoever knocks persistently, ends by entering.

Nicholas Brendon

Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off.

Leonardo da Vinci

If you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. Let us hope that.

Leonardo da Vinci

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.

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.

Oprah Winfrey

Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment.

Margaret Atwood

Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.

Margaret Atwood

Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience?

Kenny Loggins

I've worked so hard to eliminate the inner geek from my life. I suddenly realize I have no patience for those people who still have their geeks showing. Now I see why being 'normal' has been so important to me.

Margaret Thatcher

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.

Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.

Patience has tender feet.