For some reason, every time I get a little bit under the weather, I've got zero patience.
— Jason Day
I have a business manager and a book-keeper who deals with our household bills. My husband and I sit down with her for a weekly report on how much money is going out, but I'm not terribly interested, and I don't have the patience for it.
— Jane Green
Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
— James J. Corbett
When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and Nineties, I learnt the meaning of patience. And when I worked with trees, I learned the meaning of humility.
— James Balog
The very important thing you should have is patience.
— Jack Ma
When I said a few weeks ago that our people would eat cooking oil and olives if necessary, I didn't mean that there really would be only oil and olives. What I meant was that our people have the necessary patience to endure the current difficult situation. Palestinians would rather do without certain food items than their national rights.
— Ismail Haniyeh
If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
— Isaac Newton
Religion has played a big part in eliminating the nuance in humanity. People began to believe things before they knew them. It stopped people from listening and learning with the patience and love of the God they believe in.
— Indya Moore
If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
— Ilie Nastase
Be patient. Patience is the mother of all virtues.
— Hrithik Roshan
Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.
— Hermann Hesse
I have not the smarts or patience for political office.
— Henry Rollins
To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.
— Henri Nouwen
When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.
— Helen Hayes
It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form.
— Hart Crane
For believers, both privilege and privation are a trial, and both demand responses: one demands service, and the other demands patience. The greatest privilege is to live well in flourishing lands; the greatest privation is to live in the midst of war, especially civil war.
— Hamza Yusuf
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
— Hal Borland
Patience, they say, is a virtue. Yet in times of emergency, the government needs to be able to make snap decisions and take bold, decisive action to protect the American people.
— Jared Polis
Punk rock has never really had much patience with musical virtuosity. Actually, it'd be more accurate to say that for most of its history, punk has been actively hostile to virtuosity.
— James Surowiecki
Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search. Patience is a virtue, gluttony a sin.
— James Gleick
Patience is a virtue; virtue is a grace.
— Jacob Rees-Mogg
I try not to set myself up as different or as a celebrity or special. I have a husband that can get on my nerves. I have kids that test my patience. I've got a cat I can't keep off the sofa. It's real. On a bad day, I'm reading 'Acts of Faith.'
— Iyanla Vanzant
An Englishman bears with patience any ridicule which foreigners cast upon him. John Bull never laughs so loudly as when he laughs at himself; but the Americans are nationally sensitive and cannot endure that good-humoured raillery which jests at their weaknesses and foibles.
— Isabella Bird
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
I have learnt that patience is important: patience when you bowl and also in how you handle life.
— Imran Tahir
There is an old tool that has become very handy that is called strategic patience, which is do not overreact in the short-term. Take your time. See what is the underlying, real message. And then, once the reality is represented by actions, then decide how you are going to react to those actions.
— Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal
Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.
— Homer
Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.
— Heraclitus
He preacheth patience that never knew pain.
— Henry George Bohn
Patience can be a good thing - but not necessarily. Sometimes it's not so bad to be impatient. I'm a little bit too polite.
— Helen Mirren
When you're a crime reporter, you see the nub of what life's about, and you don't have much patience for the falsity of politics.
— Heather Brooke
A monk's extraordinary patience can be a hindrance to desperate decision-making.
— Harsha Bhogle
I would love to write a screenplay for 'Badlands' one day. I don't think I could ever have the patience to do it; I don't even have the patience to write songs. I write some of the shortest songs ever because I don't have the patience.
— Halsey
For correct writing, the cultivation of patience and mental accuracy is essential. Throughout the young author's period of apprenticeship, he must keep reliable dictionaries and textbooks at his elbow; eschewing as far as possible that hasty extemporaneous manner of writing which is the privilege of more advanced students.
— H. P. Lovecraft
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
Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
— James Russell Lowell
The overwhelming message of the Atonement is the perfect love the Savior has for each and all of us. It is a love which is full of mercy, patience, grace, equity, long-suffering, and, above all, forgiving.
— James E. Faust
I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.
— Jaclyn Smith
Serbia has shown enough patience, but it has also sent a clear and strong message that the law must be respected and that no one is stronger than the state.
— Ivica Dacic
Genius is patience.
Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.
— Ingmar Bergman
The difference between rearing a child in your 20s and one in your 50s is one of patience.
— Iman
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
— Hyman Rickover
Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.
— Holbrook Jackson
For many years, I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism and exert moral strength, patience and all those other great attributes.
No one who strives with full faith and heart for the blessings of eternal life will be denied. And how great will be the joy and how much deeper the appreciation then after enduring in patience and faith now.
— Henry B. Eyring
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
— Helen Keller
When you have a dream that you can't let go of, trust your instincts and pursue it. But remember: Real dreams take work, They take patience, and sometimes they require you to dig down very deep. Be sure you're willing to do that.
— Harvey Mackay
I've always been a person with patience, and I don't like to force things.
— Harry Shum, Jr.
If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
