Famous Quotes & Sayings

Judy Collins

I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.

Paul Theroux

The Colombians are good-tempered people. They are used to waiting for buses that are late, used to riding buses and trains that do not arrive.

Paul Kane

As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end.

Paul Krugman

The trouble with poverty, as an issue, is that it has basically exhausted the patience of the general public.

Ovid

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

Paulina Porizkova

Beauty, unlike the rest of the gifts handed out at birth, does not require dedication, patience and hard work to pay off. But it's also the only gift that does not keep on giving.

Paullina Simons

All good things come to those who wait.

George MacDonald

The principle part of faith is patience.

Elizabeth Gilbert

You can butcher the sheep only once. But if you are careful, you can shear the sheep every year.

Louisa May Alcott

Be worthy love, and love will come.

Louisa May Alcott

Ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.

Judith Light

You have to find the peace and patience within yourself to be a model and an example to others and not judge.

John Heywood

Don't put the cart before the horse.

John Heywood

The more haste, the less speed.

Hermann Hesse

To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Don't cross the bridge til you come to it.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

All things come round to him who will but wait.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Rule by patience, Laughing Water!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Let nothing disturb thee, Nothing affright thee; All things are passing; God never changeth; Patient endurance Attaineth to all things; Who God possesseth In nothing is wanting; Alone God sufficeth.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Patience; accomplish thy labor; accomplish thy work of affection! Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike. Therefore accomplish thy labor of love, till the heart is made godlike, Purified, strengthened, perfected, and rendered more worthy of heaven.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait -- not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.

Henri Nouwen

A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us.

Henry Ward Beecher

There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practice it while they hear. No man can learn patience except by going out into the hurlyburly world, and taking life just as it blows. Patience is but lying to, and riding out the gale.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

He surely is most in need of another's patience, who has none of his own.

Gustave Flaubert

Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation.

Gustave Flaubert

I have patience in all things - as far as the antechamber.

John Dryden

Beware the fury of a patient man.

John Dryden

Possess your soul with patience.

John Major

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

Tommy Bowden

It's been six, seven years. I think I understand, but I'd like them to have patience, too, as I patiently wait.

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

David Allen

The balance you have between drive and patience may be your master key to success.