Best 1243 quotes in «patience quotes» category

I do oppose My patience to his fury, and am arm'd To suffer, with a quietness of spirit, The very tyranny and rage of his.

If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

If, like the prophet Noah, you have patience in the distress of the flood, Calamity turns aside, and the desire of a thousand years comes forth.

If, through the years, the Cross in the life of the believer had been adhered to as strenuously as the Cross for salvation, the Church would not today be so plagued with modernistic infidelity.

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.

If you have infinite patience and perseverance, success is bound to come. No mistake in that.

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

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

In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

I have not the smarts or patience for political office.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

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

Impatience makes us get ahead of ourselves, reaching out for something in the future and not really being content with where we are, here and now.

Infinite patience, infinite purity, and infinite perseverance are the secret of success in a good cause.

I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.

In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It's a quiet, difficult undertaking, requiring subtlety in a filmmaker and perception and patience from us.

In times of uncertainty, wait. Always, if you have any doubt, wait. Do not force yourself to any action. If you have a restraint in your spirit, wait until all is clear, and do not go against it.

It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form.

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.

I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.

It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.

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.

It's not that I'm so smart.

Just take your time - wave comes. Let the other guys go, catch another one.

Kindness and courage can repair time's faults, And serving him breeds patience and courtesy In us, light sojourners and passing subjects.

Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.

Know it for certain that without steady devotion for the Guru and unflinching patience and perseverance, nothing is to be achieved. You must have strict morality.

Know full well that patience is the best means of succeeds.

Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.

Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for.

Logic can be patient, for it is eternal.

Let this be one invariable rule of your conduct--never to show the least symptom of resentment, which you cannot, to a certain degree, gratify; but always to smile, where you cannot strike.

Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.

Love conquers in the long run. It won't do to become impatient - wait, wait - patience is bound to give success. . . .

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years.

Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time, and not be discouraged at the rests. If we say sadly to ourselves, "There is no music in a rest," let us not forget " there is the making of music in it." The making of music is often a slow and painful process in this life. How patiently God works to teach us! How long He waits for us to learn the lesson!

No man can be patient who has not strong passions, for patience is passion tamed.

Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.

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.

My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.

Nature, time and patience are three great physicians.