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- A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don't have the patience to learn.
- David Wilkerson on Patience
- A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust.
- Gertrude Jekyll on Patience
- A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
- John Updike on Patience
- A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile on Patience
- 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 on Patience
- A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.
- Stanley Baldwin on Patience
- A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
- Abused patience turns to fury.
- Thomas Fuller on Patience
- Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson on Patience
- Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.
- David Mallet on Patience
- Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
- Sammy Davis, Jr. on Patience
- All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.
- Thomas Fuller on Patience
- All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.
- Thomas A Kempis on Patience
- 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 on Patience
- And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.
- Michelle Obama on Patience
- 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.
- Simon Raven on Patience
- 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 on Patience
- 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 on Patience
- 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 on Patience
- 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 on Patience
- 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 on Patience
- 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.
- 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.
- Thomas Edward Brown on Patience
- Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
- Phillips Brooks on Patience
- Bear patiently with a rival.
- 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.
- Paulina Porizkova on Patience
- 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 on Patience
- Beware of him that is slow to anger for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.
- Francis Quarles on Patience
- Beware the fury of a patient man.
- John Dryden on Patience
- Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.
- Alice Walker on Patience
- Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off.
- Nicholas Brendon on Patience
- Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.
- Evelyn Underhill on Patience
- Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.
- Yiannis Stournaras on Patience
- Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
- John Ruskin on Patience
- Endurance is patience concentrated.
- Thomas Carlyle on Patience
- Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
- James Russell Lowell on Patience
- Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
- Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
- Harriet Tubman on Patience
- 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 on Patience
- Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.
- 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.
- Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
- May Sarton on Patience
- Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.
- Corazon Aquino on Patience
- Find patience in the breath of life.
- Ryunosuke Satoro on Patience
- 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 on Patience
- Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
- Laurence J. Peter on Patience
- Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.
- Ralph Fiennes on Patience
- Genius is eternal patience.
- Michelangelo on Patience
- 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 on Patience
- God gives me the children's ministry heart and patience. This is what He wants. It's awesome. I don't know where He's gonna take it - but God is building this thing.
- Willie Aames on Patience
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