Selected patience quotes

1. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.

2. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

3. I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.

4. There may be a time in life when one is tired of everything and feels as if all one does is wrong, and there maybe some truth in it - do you think this is a feeling one must try to forget and to banish, or is it 'the longing for God,' which one must not fear, but cherish to see if it may bring us some good? Is it 'the longing for God' which leads us to make a choice which we never regret? Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.

5. In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

6. You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.

7. Man is the result of slow growth; that is why he occupies the position he does in animal life. What does a pup amount to that has gained its growth in a few days or weeks, beside a man who only attains it in as many years.

8. Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.

9. The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass.

10. Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir.

11. Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

12. Hold on to me: Someday I may be quite valuable.

13. When you plan a journey from your mind into mine, remember to allow for the time difference.

14. Time will end all my troubles, but I don't always approve of Time's methods.

15. Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.

16. I can but die... and I believe in God. Let me try and wait His will in silence.

17. The curse of the intelligent man is that he will always find himself surrounded by the ignorant. The measure of the intelligent man is determined by his tolerance toward them.

18. I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.

19. In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

20. Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again.

21. Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on.

22. Our patience will achieve more than our force.

23. I hope it won't take long.

24. What merit there is in my thinking is derived from two peculiarities: (1) My inability to be familiar with anything. I simply can't take things for granted. (2) My endless patience. I assume that the only way to find an answer is to hang on long enough and keep groping.

25. To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

26. The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

27. He that has patience may compass anything.

28. There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.

29. In conclusion, if you want to unravel the multitude of secrets of chess then don't begrudge the time.

30. If you live long enough, lots of nice things happen.

31. This crusade, this war on terrorism is going to take a while.

32. The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

33. Natural heart's ivy, Patience masks Our ruins of wrecked past purpose.

34. Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

35. When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.

36. Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of any help except by being kind, generous, and patient.

37. Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.

38. Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

39. Rome was not built in one day.

40. The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

41. Harto presto, si bien.

42. It's too early to tell.

43. So who's in a hurry?

44. I'm working on that.

45. J'ai failli attendre.

46. Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch Till the white-wing'd reapers come!

47. It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.

48. Fishing is a jerk at one end of a line waiting for a jerk at the other end of a line.

49. My favorite poet was Aeschylus. He wrote: 'In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.'

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51. I don't own an iPod. I don't have the patience for it. I think they're cool, but I'm sort of technologically challenged.

52. There is a maxim, 'Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.' It is a maxim for sluggards. A better reading of it is, 'Never do today what you can as well do tomorrow,' because something may occur to make you regret your premature action.

53. Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.

54. A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.

55. The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.

56. Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.

57. 'Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.'

58. There once was a brainy baboon, Who always breathed down a bassoon, For he said, 'It appears That in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune'.

59. I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up.

60. Beware of endeavouring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed: these are fearful odds.

61. Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

62. Everything comes if a man will only wait.

63. The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right.

64. Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.

65. 'Do you grow weary, Coriakin, of ruling such foolish subjects as I have given you here?' [Aslan asked.] - 'No,' said the Magician, 'they are very stupid but there is no real harm in them. I begin to grow rather fond of the creatures. Sometimes, perhaps, I am a little impatient, waiting for the day when they can be governed by wisdom instead of this rough magic.' - 'All in good time, Coriakin,' said Aslan. - 'Yes, all in very good time, Sir,' was the answer. (ch. 11)

66. 'Please, Aslan,' said Lucy, 'what do you call soon?' 'I call all times soon,' said Aslan. ... 'Come,' said the Magician. 'All times may be soon to Aslan, but in my home all hungry times are one o'clock.' (ch. 11)

67. Nothing is yet in its true form.

68. A warrior takes responsibility for his acts; for the most trivial of his acts. He waits patiently, knowing that he is waiting, and knowing what he is waiting for. That is the warrior's way.

69. Give me honesty and patience; So that I can work with other workers. Bring forth song and celebration; So that the spirit will be alive among us. Let the spirit flourish and grow; So we will never tire of the struggle. Let us remember those who have died for justice; For they have given us life.

70. Non-violence really rests on the reservoir that you have to create in yourself of patience; not of being patient with the problems, but being patient with yourself to do the hard work.

71. We are involved in a just cause. We know that most likely we are not going to do anything else in the rest of our life except this. We know that if we weren't doing this we wouldn't be doing anything else we would like to do more than this. We know really there is nowhere else to go and although we would like to see victory come soon we are willing to wait.

72. The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house All that cold, cold, wet day.

73. There is no sudden entrance into Heaven. Slow is the ascent by the path of Love.

74. Not to the curious or impatient soul That in the start, demands the end be shown, And at each step, stops waiting for a sign; But to the tireless toiler toward the goal, Shall the great miracles of God be known And life revealed, immortal and divine.

75. Who climbs the mountain does not always climb. The winding road slants downward many a time; Yet each descent is higher than the last.

76. For that mist may break when the sun is high And this soul forget its sorrow And the rose ray of the closing day May promise a brighter morrow.

77. A friend of mine gave me a Philip Glass record. I listened to it for five hours before I realized it had a scratch on it.

78. Nous avons tous assez de force pour supporter les maux d'autrui.

79. On pardonne tant que l'on aime.

80. Il faut gouverner la fortune comme la sante: en jouir quand elle est bonne, prendre patience quand elle est mauvaise.

81. The principal part of faith is patience.

82. A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.

83. Have you seen a room from which faith has gone?...Like a marriage from which love has gone...And patience, patience everywhere like a fog.

84. In this industry, interest in you comes in waves, it's so tidal. And so I don't really want to jump on the first wave that comes along.

85. In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons.

86. Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.

87. Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

88. By always thinking unto them. ... I keep the subject constantly before me and wait till the first dawnings open little by little into the full light.

89. For the faithful, the patient, the hermetically pure, all the important things in this world - not life and death, perhaps, which are merely words, but the important things - work out rather beautifully.

90. I used to think like Moses. That knocked me down for a couple years and put me in prison. Then I start thinking like Job. Job waited and became the wealthiest and richest man ever 'cause he believed in God.

91. Don't count your boobies until they are hatched.

92. Let the meek inherit the earth - they have it coming to them.

93. Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.

94. Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.

95. Every one, though born of God in an instant, yet undoubtedly grows by slow degrees.

96. Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.

97. Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.

98. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

99. I watched, along with all of you, as the tens of thousands of our people stood patiently in long queues for many hours. Some sleeping on the open ground overnight waiting to cast this momentous vote.

100. Prison itself is a tremendous education in the need for patience and perseverance. It is above all a test of one's commitment.