Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
— Napoleon Hill
I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
— N. Murray Edwards
When I try to be patient on my own, my patience is forced and short-lived. It is obvious to everyone that I am desperately trying to be patient.
— Mother Angelica
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.
— Moliere
Allah is with people who show patience. If you are down in the dumps, Allah will help you if you have belief. But this is a personal thing between you and him. You can't fool Allah.
— Mohammad Azharuddin
I have no patience for anyone who thinks they've figured things out, no patience for people who think they're right at the expense of everyone else. The world is too connected and too complicated to conform to any of our rigid ideas of what it should be like.
— Moby
I've always been in awe of filmmakers and their patience in realizing their vision because I could never do that.
— Mike Patton
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
Storytelling is about patience, about making sense of the moments of pathos and beauty that you find, and about carrying these moments back into your own life.
— Michael Paterniti
Learning patience was not an easy lesson.
— Michael Douglas
Not only will this make you treat each moment more preciously, but you will be more patient with yourself and with others, recognizing that there are millions of moments on the path to any worthwhile achievement.
— Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Patience pays off.
— Mayte Garcia
I don't have much patience with sick people.
— Maura Tierney
Does anyone want to see a person who's making the money that the newspapers say I'm making complaining, 'Woe is me, my life is terrible, and people are being unfair?' No one would've had any patience for that. I wouldn't have any patience for that.
— Matt Lauer
So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won't have the patience to pick them out.
— Martin Yan
Like anything worth doing in life, happiness takes time and patience and consistency.
— Mark Manson
I've been accused of riding roughshod over others' emotions, and I admit, when I feel a friend is being over-indulgent, my patience is in short supply.
— Mariella Frostrup
Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.
— Naomi Wolf
Generally, I have lot of patience, and I won't take a decision immediately on anything. I will think twice, thrice; then only I take a decision.
— N. Chandrababu Naidu
Kids teach you a lot of patience.
— Mona Singh
The single biggest advantage a value investor has is not IQ. It's patience and waiting. Waiting for the right pitch, and waiting for many years for the right pitch.
— Mohnish Pabrai
The biggest thing I possess is infinite patience. Once you are patient, things fall in place.
Scoring and fishing are comparable. In both cases, you must have patience and wait for the right moment to strike power with the utmost coolness.
— Miroslav Klose
My wife is my favorite person I've ever met in my 40 years on the planet, and I'm sure she would agree that patience is not her strongest characteristic. I don't know that golf would be the game for her.
— Mike Greenberg
Genius is eternal patience.
— Michelangelo
I'm patient.
— Michael Jordan
Patience has never been my strong suit.
— Michael Chiklis
I have very little patience with children.
— Mem Fox
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
Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.
— Matthew Arnold
Sometimes things aren't clear right away. That's where you need to be patient and persevere and see where things lead.
— Mary Pierce
I think young people don't appreciate that when you're in your 70s, you'll lose patience for techie stuff and you may decide that you want a simple device.
— Martin Cooper
Good novel is a conjunction of many factors, the main of which is, without a doubt, hard work. There are many things behind a good novel, but in particular, there is a lot of work - a lot of patience, a lot of stubbornness, and a critical spirit.
— Mario Vargas Llosa
Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
You can't jump from little things to big things. It just takes time and patience.
— Nadia Comaneci
We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.
— Muammar al-Gaddafi
While the 2011 revolution did not remove the regime, it has shortened the seemingly endless patience that many Egyptians once had for military rule.
— Mona Eltahawy
After the match-fixing allegations, the one thing I had was patience. It took a lot of time for the courts to come to a verdict regarding the case. Sometimes, there were adjournments, but during that time, I had patience. We fought very hard, and finally justice prevailed, and we got the right verdict.
When you bat, you need to have a lot of patience. I started training for it from the age of eight or nine. So, I knew what I needed when I stepped on the field to bat.
I'm not really easy to live with! There needs to be unlimited patience and unconditional love. Men I've known before loved my independent spirit and were proud of my success, to the point that they'd become jealous of the time I devote to my career.
— Milla Jovovich
I have an equal amount of patience as my grade-school children, which is not great.
— Mike D
I tell people all the time, the status quo is so untenable to me. Like, literally, I have no patience for it.
— Michael Tubbs
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
Patience is weapon. I learned that from my Laker days.
— Metta World Peace
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
Science is to be much commended for the ingenuity, the patience, and the persistency it displays in the invention of instruments wherewith to ferret out the secrets of nature.
— Max Heindel
I am blessed to be surrounded by the people I love. I thank them for their patience and grace.
Deep down, I know that I am a child of God who has inherited divine capacities; some of them I strive to develop, others are left languishing. I also have a human side. I lose my temper, lose patience and sometimes judge others and myself.
— Mary Manin Morrissey
Sandy Meisner would say it takes 20 years to make an actor. Some people it takes five, some people 30. And you have to have patience and forgiveness for yourself. It's hard when you see people at your age or younger becoming successful.
— Mark Pellegrino
Al Unser Sr. was one of the smartest drivers I've ever raced against. And I often said, I wish I could've had some of his patience. I know it would have worked for me many times.
— Mario Andretti
