Patience Quotes - Page 28

• Patience is moral elasticity.

  Austin O'Malley

  Moral, Elasticity

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• The best fire doesna flare up the soonest.

  George Eliot

  Passion, Fire, Flare Up

  George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.67

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• There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practice it while they hear. No man can learn patience except by going out into the hurlyburly world, and taking life just as it blows. Patience is but lying to, and riding out the gale.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Lying, Blow, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1860). “Life thoughts”, p.61

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• I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.

  David Hobson

  Eye, Garden, Joy

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• Before us lay a painful road, And guidance have I sought in duteous love From Wisdom's heavenly Father. Hence hath flowed Patience, with trust that, whatsoe'er the way Each takes in this high matter, all may move Cheered with the prospect of a brighter day.

  William Wordsworth

  Father, Moving, May

  1839-40 Sonnets upon the Punishment of Death, no.14,'Apology', l.9-14 (published in the Quarterly Review 1841).

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• Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Looks, World, Noise

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “High Tide in Tucson”, p.196, Faber & Faber

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• See your road through.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

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• Learn to relax. Your body is precious, as it houses your mind and spirit. Inner peace begins with a relaxed body.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Fitness, House, Inner Peace

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• To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.549

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• 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

  Kids, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Jealous, Independent, Unconditional Love

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Have no friends not equal to yourself.

  Confucius

  Friendship, Positive, Integrity

  Confucius (2016). “The Analects”, p.47, Open Road Media

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• It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.

  Julie Bowen

  War, Chance, Attrition

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• I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Memorable, Science

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• Patience is the essence of clicking great Photographs!!

  Abhijeet Sawant

  Photography, Essence, Photographer

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• In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time.

  Owen Feltham

  Motivation, Business, Three

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• Who can wait quietly until the mud settles? Who can remain still until the moment of action?

  Laozi

  Waiting, Mud, Action

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• Digo, paciencia y barajar. What I say is, patience, and shuffle the cards.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Cards, Shuffle

  Don Quixote pt. 2, ch. 23 (1605)

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• Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Attitude

  1902 The Story of My Life.

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• This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be a long process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time.

  Haruki Murakami

  Blow, Tangled, Long

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• As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end.

  Paul Kane

  Persistence, Winning, Years

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• Patience was not my strong point.

  Lauren Bacall

  Strong

  Lauren Bacall (2005). “By Myself and Then Some”, Large Print Press

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• Whoever knocks persistently, ends by entering.

  Muhammad Ali

  Entering, Ends

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• The word 'jihad' has nowhere been used in the Qur'an to mean war in the sense of launching an offensive. It is used rather to mean 'struggle'. the action most consistently called for in the Qur'an is the exercise of patience. (p. 7-8)

  Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

  War, Struggle, Mean

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• I’m saying that I can wait. For now. But when things get back to normal—assuming that ever happens—I want my shot. We can make each other happy, Faythe. I know it. And I’m done walking away from things I want just because they don’t come easily. You’re worth the work.

  Rachel Vincent

  Walking Away, Waiting, Done

  Rachel Vincent (2009). “Prey”, p.257, MIRA

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