Explore Quotes on Patience

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

Many people think that patience is a sign of weakness. _x000D_ I think this is a mistake. It is anger that is a sign of _x000D_ weakness, whereas patience is a sign of strength

The poison leaves bit by bit, not all at once. Be patient. You are healing.

As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future.

I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.

So it's been a slow process and it's taken some patience. That's why patients are called patients I think - patience is required.

That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people.

And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust.

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.

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.

To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days.

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 haven't got a lot of patience.

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.

Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off.

Patience has never been my strong suit.

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.

The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited.

I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.

Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear.

When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.