Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Aquinas

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

Tertullian

Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.

Tertullian

Patience is God's nature.

Tertullian

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

Lewis Carroll

No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.

Joyce Meyer

Patience is not just about waiting for something... it's about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

Joshua Slocum

Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one's patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days.

Julius Caesar

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

Judy Collins

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

Joyce Meyer

Patience is a fruit of the spirit that grows only under trial. It is useless to pray for patience. Well, actually I encourage you to pray for patience, but I'll tell you what you'll get TRIALS!

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.

Pauline Kael

It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.

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.

Elisha Cuthbert

When I was 20, I thought I was 30 - but I was so far from it. When you're young, you want everything to happen now. As you mature, you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience.

Eknath Easwaran

Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.

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.

Katherine Heigl

I'm terrible with patience.

John Heywood

Don't put the cart before the horse.

John Heywood

The more haste, the less speed.

Lord Chesterfield

In the course of the world, a man must very often put on an easy, frank countenance, upon very disagreeable occasions; he must seem pleased, when he is very much otherwise; he must be able to accost and receive with smiles, those whom he would much rather meet with swords.

Mahatma Gandhi

Patience means self-suffering.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A leaf that is destined to grow large is full of grooves and wrinkles at the start. Now if one has no patience and wants it smooth offhand like a willow leaf, there is trouble ahead.

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.