Patience Quotes

Patience is sorrow's salve.
– Charles Churchill
Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
– James J. Corbett
No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.
– Star Jones
No, I will be the pattern of all patience I will say nothing.
– William Shakespeare
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
– Robert H. Schuller
My wife is the most awesome person in the universe. She's made this experience much less miserable for me, with her compassion, patience and understanding.
– Wil Wheaton
My relationship with the Philharmonia Orchestra brought me many times to London and I will always reflect positively on that early period of development with them - their patience, their warmth, their dedication.
– Gustavo Dudamel
My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.
– Vanessa Paradis
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.
– Frances O'Grady
My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years.
– Christina Milian
Luck is a component that a lot of people in the arts sometimes fail to recognise: that you can have talent, perseverance, patience, but without luck you will not have a successful career.
– Bryan Cranston
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.
– Pauline Kael
In this day and age, you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business.
– Brett Ratner
If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.
– Debra Winger
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.
– Kenny Loggins
I've said my patience is not infinite.
– Darrell Issa
I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.
– Randy Travis
I've always been a person with patience, and I don't like to force things.
– Harry Shum, Jr.
I'm terrible with patience.
– Katherine Heigl
I'm not really easy to live with! There needs to be unlimited patience and unconditional love. Men I've known before loved my independent spirit and were proud of my success, to the point that they'd become jealous of the time I devote to my career.
– Milla Jovovich
I wish I was a shredder that could play everything, but I don't have the patience.
– Dave Navarro
I will exercise patience and will provide all facts to the general public.
– Yingluck Shinawatra
I think there's not much patience for organized labour, period, public or private sector.
– Kathleen Wynne
I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.
– David Duchovny
I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.
– T. Boone Pickens
I think God's really blessed me with patience. I'm good with a lot of things going on at once.
– Niki Taylor
I haven't got a lot of patience.
– Jeffrey Katzenberg
I haven't been given many things, but I've been given ample, limitless patience.
– Lincoln Diaz-Balart
I have not the smarts or patience for political office.
– Henry Rollins
I have no patience at all.
– Alan Sugar
I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
– Gertrude Stein
I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project.
– Jerry Garcia
I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer.
– Jenny Agutter
I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.
– Robert Falcon Scott
I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.
– Bob Woodward
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
– William Shakespeare
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.
– Elbert Hubbard
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
– Paul Sweeney
Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.
– Margaret J. Wheatley
Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.
– Andrew Bird
He preacheth patience that never knew pain.
– H. G. Bohn
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
– Hyman Rickover
Give your dog or cat respect, patience, understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week, that's a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel.
– Ingrid Newkirk
Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.
– Ralph Fiennes
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
– Laurence J. Peter
Find patience in the breath of life.
– Ryunosuke Satoro
Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem.
– Tom Holt
Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.
– Phaedrus
Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it. Obviously, it's a challenge - but if you're not taking the bull by the horns, I have no patience for you. You're just taking up space.
– Melissa Rosenberg
Endurance is patience concentrated.
– Thomas Carlyle
Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.
– Yiannis Stournaras
Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.
– Evelyn Underhill
Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off.
– Nicholas Brendon
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.
– Michael Haneke
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 Kane
As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience.
– Ridley Pearson
Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.
– Tony Kushner
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.
– Joshua Slocum
And we ask the American people to play an important part of our layered defense. We ask for cooperation, patience and a commitment to vigilance in the face of a determined enemy.
– Janet Napolitano
Americans have less and less patience for the intrusive and divisive moral scolds who thrived in the bubbles of the Clinton and Bush years.
– Frank Rich
Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
– Sammy Davis, Jr.
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.
– David Mallet
A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?
– Aaron Spelling
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
– Sir George Savile
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
– John Updike
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
– Brian Adams
As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.
– Cleveland Amory
What does your sorrow do while you're sleeping? It is awaken and waiting. And, when it loses patience, it wakes me up.
– Ivo Andric
With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair.
– Matthew Arnold
Practice, Perseverance, and Patience-Win always.
– Charles Atlas
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
– Saint Augustine
I have no patience with the doctrine of pure science, that science is science only when it is uncontaminated by application in the arts of life; and I also have no patience with the spirit that considers a piece of work to be legitimate only as it has direct bearing on the arts and affairs of men.
– Liberty Hyde Bailey
I like to tell people that all of our products and business will go through three phases. There's vision, patience, and execution.
– Steve Ballmer
Patience is a flatterer, sir and an ass, sir.
– Aphra Behn
If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
– Hal Borland
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
– John Burroughs
I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.
– George W. Bush
Patience comes to those who wait.
– Terry Ballard
The three P's of success: passion, persistence and patience.
– Doug Bronson
Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.
– George-Louis de Buffon
Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.
– George-Louis de Buffon
Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.
– Charles Caleb Colton
I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a transformer in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader.
– Stephen Covey
Everything that was good from that small remote country had gone into them - sunshine and strength, good sense, patience, the versatility of practical men. They had confidence in themselves - knowing themselves as good as the best in the world could bring against them. And they marched into history.'
– Silvia Cartright
Life is all about timing... the unreachable becomes reachable, the unavailable become available, the unattainable... attainable. Have the patience, wait it out It's all about timing.
– Stacey Charter
Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience to win.
– Cesar Chavez
The greatest power is often simple patience.
– E. Joseph Cossman
I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.
– Albert Einstein
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
– Jean de La Fontaine
If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.
– Mahatma Gandhi
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.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
– Baltasar Gracian
When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.
– Helen Hayes
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
– Napoleon Hill
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
– Victor Hugo
Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
– Thomas Henry Huxley
I beg your lordship's patience till I can procure my papers. I cannot plead until I have those papers that I insisted upon.
– William Kidd