Patience Quotes - Page 19

• Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress.

  Margaret Atwood

  Hands, Water, Doe

  Margaret Atwood (2003). “The Penelopiad”, p.43, Canongate Books

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• Patience has never been my strong suit.

  Michael Chiklis

  Strong, Suits

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

  Andre Gide

  Leadership, Peace, Military

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• 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

  Years, Age, Finals

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• 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

  Photography, Waiting, Luck

  Bill Brandt (1993). “Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Patience is passion tamed.

  Lyman Abbott

  Positive, Inspiring, Passion

  Lyman Abbott (2009). “The Theology of an Evolutionist”, p.118, Cambridge University Press

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  Every great dream begins with a dreamer.

  Harriet Tubman

  Inspiring, Dream, Passion

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• I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.

  Major Taylor

  Perseverance, Courage, Monsters

  Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”

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• Perfect love is perfectly patient.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Love Is

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• My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.

  Vanessa Paradis

  Inspiration, Want, Way

  "Portrait of the artist: Vanessa Paradis, actor and musician". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2011.

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• we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers

  Carl Sagan

  Our World, Depth, Cosmos

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.217, Ballantine Books

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• 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

  War, Men, Political

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• It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Waiting, Young

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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• One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Age, Problem

  "Carl Hiaasen: 'My humour has always come from anger'". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2011.

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• Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.

  Randy Johnson

  Hurt, Hard Work, Careers

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• Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Foolish, Parliament, Unlimited

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.619, Lulu.com

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• I've said my patience is not infinite.

  Darrell Issa

  Infinite, Said

  Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 27, 2012.

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• The Colombians are good-tempered people. They are used to waiting for buses that are late, used to riding buses and trains that do not arrive.

  Paul Theroux

  People, Waiting, Riding

  Paul Theroux (2014). “The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas”, p.275, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.

  Ilie Nastase

  Sports, Have Confidence, Ifs

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• I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1973). “Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1929-1932”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• If, through the years, the Cross in the life of the believer had been adhered to as strenuously as the Cross for salvation, the Church would not today be so plagued with modernistic infidelity.

  L. E. Maxwell

  Years, Infidelity, Church

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• I'm terrible with patience.

  Katherine Heigl

  Terrible

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• I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.

  T. Boone Pickens

  Past, Thinking

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• 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

  Moving, Grandmother, Grace

  "Michelle Obama DNC speech". www.politico.com.

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