Best 1243 quotes in «patience quotes» category

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 patience is a skill and I wish I had it.

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.

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

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

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

It's not that I'm so smart.

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

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

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

Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.

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.

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

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.

Logic can be patient, for it is eternal.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Never speak out of anger, Never act out of fear, Never choose from impatience, But wait... and peace will appear.

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

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