I don't know the definition of a star; I am just an actor. I prefer doing hard work, as I feel luck can't do much in absence of hard work. I am a lazy person - when I entered into this industry, I thought it was a cakewalk, but I have realised it needs a lot of patience and hard work.
— Emraan Hashmi
It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
— Elizabeth Taylor
When I was 20, I thought I was 30 - but I was so far from it. When you're young, you want everything to happen now. As you mature, you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience.
— Elisha Cuthbert
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.
— Elbert Hubbard
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
— Edith Sitwell
I feel like I've always been a great fighter but I'm learning the patience part of it and not getting overwhelmed with emotion and adrenaline and going out there and brawling like a maniac.
— Dustin Poirier
With care and patience, people may accomplish things which, to an indolent person, would appear impossible.
— Dorothea Dix
With patience and persistence, even the smallest act of discipleship or the tiniest ember of belief can become a blazing bonfire of a consecrated life. In fact, that's how most bonfires begin - as a simple spark.
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Being a family member is hard no matter where you are. It's hard to be a kid. It's hard to be a parent. It's hard to be a brother or sister. It takes patience and kindness and forbearance.
— Dianne Wiest
The notion that patience is a virtue is something you don't fully appreciate until you're a parent. You need endless patience with little ones.
— Deirdre O'Kane
Being a father taught me patience. And it taught me vulnerability. You don't realize how vulnerable you are when you love something else more far more than yourself.
— Dean Cain
A nation may be born in a day, but the great truths which make for the glory and uplift of the race only through long ages permeate and control humanity. We must have the divine patience and understand the divine mathematics of a thousand years as one day.
— David Josiah Brewer
Negative thinking patterns can be immensely deceptive and persuasive, and change is rarely easy. But with patience and persistence, I believe that nearly all individuals suffering from depression can improve and experience a sense of joy and self-esteem once again.
— David D. Burns
You can legislate behavior but you cannot legislate belief. Patience is what it takes. But patience doesn't mean sitting around on your butt waiting for something to happen.
— Daryl Davis
The perfect ham and cheese sandwich is all about focusing on quality ingredients and about simple techniques. You start with great bread, a well-cured ham and a sharp local cheese, and the rest is easy. A little butter in a pan and a little patience - in the end you'll have a sandwich that is at once comforting and delicious.
— Daniel Humm
In a world where people are hungry for quick fixes and sound bites, for instant gratification, there's no patience for the long, slow rebuilding process: implementing after-school programs, hiring more community workers to act as mentors, adding more job training programs in marginalized areas.
— Dan Hill
To anybody who says to me, 'I'm in character,' I say, 'You should be in an asylum.' If you don't know that you're pretending, then you should really seek medical help. I don't have patience for that stuff.
— D. B. Sweeney
Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
— Elon Musk
Like anyone, you could love someone, and it doesn't mean that you're equipped or you were taught or have the patience or the love or the wherewithal to be a good parent. One has nothing to do with the other.
— Elizabeth Rodriguez
Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.
— Elihu Root
Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.
— Eknath Easwaran
The greatest power is often simple patience.
— E. Joseph Cossman
Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.
— Drake
I have embraced crying mothers who have lost their children because our politicians put their personal agendas before the national good. I have no patience for injustice, no tolerance for government incompetence, no sympathy for leaders who fail their citizens.
— Donald Trump
As wonderful as they were, my parents didn't teach me anything about self-discipline, concentration, patience, or focus. If I hadn't had a family myself, I probably never would've done anything. Marriage taught me responsibility.
— Dick Van Dyke
A noun is not a name you give something. It is something you watch becoming itself, and you have to have the patience to find out what it is.
— Derek Walcott
If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.
— Debra Winger
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
I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.
— David Duchovny
Sometimes we may ask God for success, and He gives us physical and mental stamina. We might plead for prosperity, and we receive enlarged perspective and increased patience, or we petition for growth and are blessed with the gift of grace. He may bestow upon us conviction and confidence as we strive to achieve worthy goals.
— David A. Bednar
I've said my patience is not infinite.
— Darrell Issa
If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow.
— Daniel Bryan
Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
— Damian Lewis
When I first started submitting my work professionally - and we're talking years and years ago - I had no patience for editorial response times. I hated waiting to hear back from people, hated waiting to see my work in print.
— Cullen Bunn
I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.
— Ellen DeGeneres
The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.
— Elizabeth Edwards
There are very few things that I have any patience for that are not at least a little bit humorous.
— Elif Batuman
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
— Edmund Burke
While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory.
— Dweezil Zappa
When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.
— Douglas Rushkoff
When I have a job to do, time means nothing. I lose patience with people who work on a clock.
— Don Cornelius
I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.
— Dick Dale
Having patience is one of the hardest things about being human. We want to do it now, and we don't want to wait. Sometimes we miss out on our blessing when we rush things and do it on our own time.
— Deontay Wilder
For me, most writing consists of siphoning out useless pre-story matter, cutting and cutting and cutting, what seems to be endless rewriting, and what is entailed in all that is patience, and waiting, and false starts, and dead ends, and really, in a way, nerve.
— Deborah Eisenberg
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.
— David Mallet
The creative people I admire seem to share many characteristics: A fierce restlessness. Healthy cynicism. A real world perspective. An ability to simplify. Restraint. Patience. A genuine balance of confidence and insecurity. And most importantly, humanity.
— David Droga
I wish I was a shredder that could play everything, but I don't have the patience.
— Dave Navarro
Tournament play demands patience to survive and win. Winning at cash games demands a whole other level of thought and deception. You need to reach into your bag of tricks and run the occasional big bluff to be a consistent cash game winner.
— Daniel Negreanu
I have no patience for homophobia.
— Dan Levy
With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
— Daisaku Ikeda
