Patience Quotes (677 Quotes)



    The conflict lasted a long time. Establishing a durable peace and achieving genuine reconciliation will also take a long time, and I think it is going to take patience, determination and perseverance by all concerned,

    I've got to stay patient and build on it each and every day. Patience helps and at least I'm still in it. There won't be too many guys under par by the end of the week and hopefully I can get myself there over the next three days.

    For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross-grained ungentleness whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self-control.

    I don't deserve patience, ... In this business you're only as good as your last game, and our last game we weren't very good. And I take that responsibility.


    Poker is an endurance sport and we have just made it harder, no one can doubt that playing poker in subzero temperatures, with very little light, requires the utmost concentration, patience and mental stamina.

    Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice. You might experiment with using the cultivation of generosity as a vehicle for deep self-observation and inquiry as well as an exercise in giving. A good place to start is with yourself. See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance, or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation-to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe.

    And they brought his shirt with false blood upon it. He said Nay, your souls have made the matter light for you, but patience is good and Allah is He Whose help is sought for against what you describe.











    People ask me a lot about the values I got from playing for the Cubs for so many years. The value I got out of it was patience. A lot of people these days are not very patient.

    Foreign policy expertise depends on patience and judgment, ... I question Senator Kerry's judgment when he voted 'no' in 1991 and 'yes' in 2002. I think it should be the other way around.


    The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.


    The balance was really good. They shared the basketball and that is what you really have to do against Utah because they play really good team defense. I thought down the stretch our patience was really good. We didn't panic.


    I'm the same guy, I'm just holding it in a little better. Going into the season, the key word for me was patience. There are going to be nights like Saturday night and Friday night. You have to grade yourself after every game. You have to realize there are going to be growing pains.

    It is natural to every man to wish for distinction, and the praise of those who can confer honor by their praise, in spite of all false philosophy, is sweet to every human heart but as eminence can be but the lot of a few, patience of obscurity is a

    We knew Andalusia was the kind of team that was going to get a lot of yards just because they're so big. We had to show some patience against them. We felt if we could keep making them take another snap they would eventually make a mistake. In a lot of ways, our defense was our offense.

    True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep.





    There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.

    Don't you get it that this is an issue that's greater than the issue of collective bargaining Don't you understand that this is an issue of such transcendent importance that you should have acted months ago ... The patience of this body ... is at an end.



    I didn't have the patience to study words like moms and dads and cats and dogs, so I set up an independent study to translate these poems by Jean Genet with a French professor.

    Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.


    This is the most frustrating night we've had this year. Ball movement was not good. People movement was not good. Patience is out the window. You're not going to win a championship you're not going to be in a championship game playing that way. I really think they are afraid of success.

    The remote control changed our lives, ... The remote control took over the timing of the world. That's why you have road rage. You have people who have no patience, because you got immediate gratification. You got click, click, click, click. If it doesn't explode within three seconds, click click, click.

    We're not an offense that can get everything back in one chunk. When you have an offense like that, you are relying on patience. Sometimes maturity is something that allows patience to happen. They weren't forcing us into doing anything we didn't want to do, but regardless the penalties and the mistakes we were making were negating any flow of momentum we had.


    Listen, I was the first black manager in baseball and there was incredible pressure. I don't blame anyone else. I was too tough . . . I lack patience. I probably got on guys a little too hard, with the wrong tone of voice.


    And We strengthened their hearts with patience, when they stood up and said Our Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth we will by no means call upon any god besides Him, for then indeed we should have said an extravagant thing.



    The earth is always represented as an emblem of patience the bolt of Indra, if taken in its technical sense, as the bolt of a gate, might likewise suggest the idea of firmness while the lake is a constant representative of serenity and purity.



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