As a result of the strategic patience policy, we now have North Korea testing four times an atomic weapon; they've violated numerous United Nations sanctions, U.S. sanctions by launching ballistic missile tests.
— Cory Gardner
The great saints were always great innovators... They had to be very strong people... principled people. And, apart from their principles, with great tenacity they had to have great reserves of patience.
— Colm Wilkinson
There was a solid year and a half, perhaps two years, after making 'Temple Grandin,' when I didn't do anything. I just didn't have much patience for roles that were silly, or light, or inconsequential.
— Claire Danes
There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.
— Chuck Tanner
Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience.
— Chris Pine
The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards.
— Charles Stanley
There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.
— Cesar Chavez
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.
— Carl Jung
It's amazing. My kids have grown me in ways I never knew possible. The patience I've received and the love I get from them is just amazing.
— Candace Cameron Bure
You've got to be able to let things roll off your back, and you've got to have some patience.
— Brooks Koepka
The biggest challenge, I think for any new artist, is patience.
— Brett Eldredge
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.
— Bowie Kuhn
I started 'SNL,' and I became the one who did impressions. I did that, but then I wanted to get an original character on, and that took a long time to get one on that stuck. And then I got Vinny Vedecci on - 'Oh great' - and then it took a couple more seasons to get Greg the Alien on. You have to have some patience.
— Bill Hader
The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live.
— Bernard de Mandeville
He that can have patience can have what he will.
— Benjamin Franklin
Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
— Baltasar Gracian
Writing takes a lot of patience. It usually takes me a year to write a book. One time, it took me 14 years to write a book, not that I worked on it every day.
— Avi
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
Because we men have been physically stronger and more arrogant, we've influenced much of the cool stuff of the world, like basing the definition of courage on what we do on battlefields rather than on the patience or endurance or tolerance necessary for a sometimes painful daily grind that includes small children.
— Clyde Edgerton
It's funny with jeans now, because if they don't feel like a pair of sweatpants, I don't have patience for them anymore! I think I'm becoming increasingly lazy.
My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years.
— Christina Milian
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.
— Charlie Chaplin
Patience is sorrow's salve.
— Charles Churchill
Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.
— CeeLo Green
One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.
— Carl Hiaasen
When people see a legend, they call it a legend. But to be a legend, it's a lot of hard work and patience. You can't play for five or ten years and be a legend. It takes longer than that.
— Burning Spear
In this day and age, you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business.
— Brett Ratner
Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.
— Bret Harte
I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.
— Bob Woodward
Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.
— Bill Brandt
I have a tremendous amount of patience and tolerance when working with people, but if I ever feel the impulse to inhibit myself from doing one more take, or feel a need to apologize to someone for pushing, I know that that relationship isn't gonna last.
— Bennett Miller
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
— Barbara Johnson
When I returned from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1972, my father was running a forging business with a turnover of Rs 3.5 crore. But I had no patience and wanted to grow the business via exports.
— Baba Kalyani
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.
— Arnold H. Glasow
There comes a time when you have to exercise patience.
— Columbus Short
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
Patience is something that, as a young man, I didn't have - when waiting for parts to arrive or waiting for people to behave as I wanted them to.
— Cillian Murphy
If you were to ask me when I was 17 if I was mad because I didn't have a deal, I would have probably said, 'Yeah.' Now I'm so glad I got it when I got it. People tell you to be patient and wait. Patience is not a virtue of mine, but I think everything definitely happened the right way for me.
— Chris Young
Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.
— Charles Sturt
Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.
— Charles Caleb Colton
People need patience. It takes time to build a brand.
— Carmen Busquets
Being a wife and mother are the single most important roles in my life. They take a lot of work, a lot of patience, and help from God and His Word, but if you put in the effort, it's more fulfilling than anything on earth.
Luck is a component that a lot of people in the arts sometimes fail to recognise: that you can have talent, perseverance, patience, but without luck you will not have a successful career.
— Bryan Cranston
I'm patient with crossword puzzles and the most impatient golfer.
— Brett Hull
I went in to Reading with the full backing of the chairman, who was great to me, and I got 20 games. Even though it was a three-year project, and I was the guy who knew the club more than anyone, I got the sack after 20 games. Funnily enough, it had just started to pick up, but they lost their patience.
— Brendan Rodgers
Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.
— Billy Graham
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.
— Beverly Cleary
You can write ten versions of a scene, and then, on the day, discover that something in the original scene worked. It's hard on writers. Hard on actors, hard on editors, hard on me, hard on the producers, who require patience and confidence. But I can't get to the end without going through this process.
I make really good pasta sauce. The secret to getting it right is just patience and love.
— Banks
There are three lessons in philanthropy - one, involve the family, especially the spouse. She can be a remarkable driver of your initiative. Two, you need to build an institution, and you need to scale it up. Choose a leader for philanthropy whom you trust. Three, philanthropy needs patience, tenacity and time.
— Azim Premji
