For what cannot be cured patience is best.

Irish Proverb

How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees.

William Shakespeare

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.

Ralph Marston

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Helen Keller

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Cato the Elder

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

Stanislaw J. Lec

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.

Brian Adams

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

Margaret Thatcher

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

Ambrose Bierce

You usually have to wait for that which is worth waiting for.

Craig Bruce

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

Franz Kafka

A journey of a thousand miles begins with one small step.

Old Chinese Proverb

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

Isaac Newton

As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality, sincerity, and solicitude, you will have a better opinion of the world around you.

Grenville Kleiser

Patience is a flatterer, sir and an ass, sir.

Aphra Behn

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

Barbara Johnson

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

Jean De La Bruyere

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.

George Jackson

There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails.

Richard Rybolt

Dear God, I pray for patience.And I want if RIGHT NOW!

Oren Arnold

Who waits until the wind shall silent keep, Will never find the ready hour to sow.

Helen Fiske Hunt Jackson

Patience is the mother of will.

George Gurdjieff

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.

Buddhist Proverb

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Victor Hugo

Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.

Corazon Aquino

It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

Elizabeth Taylor

He preacheth patience that never knew pain.

H. G. Bohn

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Titus Maccius Plautus

Patience is the courage of the conqueror, the strength of man against destiny.

Edward G. Bulwer lytton

Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.

Eknath Easwaran

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Aristotle

Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English.

William Shakespeare

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Benjamin Franklin

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

John Updike

A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.

Dutch Proverb

The strongest of all warriors are these two -- Time and Patience.

Leo Tolstoy

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

Thucydides

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

Chinese Proverb

It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

C. S. Lewis

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

Helen Keller

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickover

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

John Quincy Adams

We know it's going to take time, ... It's requiring a lot of patience on everyone's part to get through this.

Dr. Julie Gerberding

I did not expect that we would emerge on top. I would have been content for us to finish in the middle of the pack. But all the hard work, patience and perseverance of my players are paying off.

Nel Parado

I just say thanks for their patience. But I'm going to rebuild Eden.

Tony Dang

I think people's patience may be getting a little thin, from what I'm hearing my constituents say.

Jean Godden

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

When the game was close we didn't have enough patience. Everyone wanted to hit one out of the park.

Joe Cravens

One minute of patience, ten years of peace.

Greek Proverb

They kept telling me you have to have patience, ... Systems in the Caribbean in October take a long time to develop.

Lixion Avila

For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required.

Indian Proverb

You have to get yourself a good notary, have nerves of steel and infinite patience.

Chris Lawrence

I've said all along this team is going to be very young, very inexperienced but very talented. This team is going to need patience from myself, from the fans and from the media.

Tod Kowalczyk

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?

Paul Sweeney

I have to tell you I am losing a little patience with what appears to me to be an almost pathological obsession with calling into question the actions of men and women who are on the front lines of the war on terror.

Pat Robertson

There is improvement, but we still can't know the extent of the cognitive improvement. We simply need patience.

Dr. Yoram Weiss

Our main strategy is patience, patience, patience.

Bill Toohey

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

Herman Hesse

Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.

George louis Leclerc De Buffon

We thought Beecher would be patient. We matched that patience when it was necessary.

Jon Monti

I started doing it and I couldn't stop. It really tired the patience of the people around me.

Robert Towne

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

Ilie Nastase

Maybe because it's entirely an artist's eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tools.

Ken Rockwell

Everybody keeps asking me when I'm going to bring it out. They say I have too much patience.

Martin Garcia

The one area we've got to work on is the batters. They've got to show a little more patience [than in Pakistan].

Duncan Fletcher

Their job is to convince the Chinese that patience [on the yuan] is not infinite.

Morris Goldstein

I'm very happy for Gavin, because I know what he's capable of being. I always felt he was going to get back on track. We just needed to have patience.

Mike Arbuckle

Aaron is a big space-eater. We believed if we had the patience to get it to him, it would wear them down.

Peter Pullen

When you're trying to put the pieces back together again, you need a lot of time and a lot of patience.

Karl Eikenberry

The really hard thing is how do you get the information in the first place? How do you get someone to rat on someone like bin Laden? That is so difficult and that requires years and patience and money, ... Inside the CIA.

Ronald Kessler

There's a lot of love in them. Love and patience.

Kerry Grauel

Patience is bitter, but it bears sweet fruit.

Turkish proverb

Everybody has to have patience here. This is like no other place in the world. It's like Bombay here.

Steve Webb

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.

Horace Bushnell

We have had patience with the sewer, but this really is ridiculous. When it snows, we're not the first to get our road cleared. When the lights go off, we're not the first to get them back on. But when you see houses getting built with God knows how many bathrooms in them, and you only live five miles away, that's a little disheartening.

Carol Lee

It's more direct; no more beating around the bush. It looks like they're reaching the limits of their patience.

Marshall Gittler

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

Joseph Addison

Really this game was learning patience and grace. The school we played [Briarwood] comes out game after game and never hangs their head. Our girls really understand that it doesn't matter if it was 102-8. Grace and mercy come into play, and that's what I love about coaching at this school is that the kids know that.

Dawn Davis

We didn't expect the (Cypriot) goal, and after that our boys got nervous and lost patience, but in the second half I told them to continue playing as they did during the first 20 minutes, and they followed my words, and we won easily.

Koebi Kuhn

We knew that's the kind of team we had. We don't have much size, but we knew we had great ball handling, good shooting, and good patience.

Jack Mccarthy

Part of that patience is we're looking at the post more. And our posts are either finishing or getting the foul.

Amy Taylor

Anne possessed infinite patience. She was a behind-the-scenes kind of person who hated being the center of attention. But she was extraordinarily powerful in her own way.

Bernadette Baldino

The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live.

Bernard Mandeville

It's the history of who you are, your family and your background, they just take a longer perspective. If it doesn't happen instantly like Americans want, that's fine. If I don't make it, my children will, and you could really see that patience.

Tim Dufault

I like to walk around, so I might see those businesses. But not everyone has the patience.

Bob Gould

Patience in the Congress is running thin thinner. Certainly, privately, there are a lot more conversations occurring across party lines about Iraq.

Mark Udall

Patience plays a huge part. As far as in high school, every person here was a star in their high school.

Luke Zeller

It does not go away overnight, but parents look for immediate solutions. Developing a child needs a lot of patience and time.

Sabiha Hossain

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Franklin P. Jones

We still need to show more patience on offense and we need to do a better job of competing on every possession.

Mike Glick

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Napoleon Hill

As time goes on, I think my patience for free speech has dwindled somewhat.

Max Goldberg

That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people.

Ray Harryhausen

[The same treatment would be afforded Del Monte, he added.] Eventually we'll lose patience, ... but we're not there yet.

Robert Olstein

We just didn't shoot the ball well in the first half. It was just a great defensive effort in the second half, and we showed a lot more patience and shot the ball better.

Steve Hook

You need to be good at multi-tasking and being flexible. You never know what's going to come up that day, where you might be needed. Patience is also very important. You need to be nurturing; you need to have the love of working with the children as well.

Tammie Walkowski

A good golfer has the determination to win and the patience to wait for the breaks.

Gary Player

(A lack of) patience was an issue, and it's been something we've fought all season. I hope this game was a wake-up call, but it's a crappy way to get it. The kids have been resilient all season. Hopefully, we'll get another shot at them.

John Augustavo

You have to train your body to take a beating. You have to have the heart and the patience to realize you're not going to get it overnight.

James Q. Wilson

It was hard for us to get hits because she wasn't going to throw strikes. She threw the ball well and had a lot of movement, and she made us chase the ball. Once we showed patience, she got behind in the count and flattened out some pitches that we were able to hit.

Tim Mackin

But the process will take a long time. You've got to give us some time and some patience with this process.

Paul Risley

You have to use a little more patience. You are going to be in deeper water, like on the edge of a creek channel, so you are going to have to slow down to get the bait down.

Brian Duplechain

Patience is going to be key around the narrow circuit. I'm close enough to the lead pack, I intend to stay with the lead pack and take advantage of any opportunities that come my way.

Paul Fix

We didn't show a lot of patience with the curve ball, ... We just didn't get it done.

James English

If anything, the officials we talked to today showed a great deal of respect, humility and patience. They listened more than they talked.

Nancy Guerrero

O you who believe! seek assistance through patience and prayer; surely Allah is with the patient. (The Cow 2.153 ).

Quran

I am very happy. My patience and perseverance have finally paid off.

Parthiv Patel

PATIENCE, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.

Ambrose Bierce

Some people require more patience, ... Eventually, the Lord will win out.

Larry Fuller

Find patience in the breath of life.

Ryunosuke Satoro

We need to be more patient on the offensive end; not stopping and freezing, just patience and decision-making.

Nell Fookes

All human power is a compound of time and patience.

Honore De Balzac

If we make breaks we need to finish them off. We need to be clinical enough but also composed enough that if the opportunity's not there, then we have the patience to attack where they are weak again.

Tana Umaga

Patience, please, please, please.

Patricia Collins

We appreciate your patience in hanging in there with us. We hope you have a great mission to Hubble, and we'll see you back here before the next millennium.

Dave King

We're not trying to completely kill the clock at that point. But we did show patience. You're just hoping the other team makes a mistake.

Joe James

There's going to be a lot of expectations on this young man, being the first pick in the draft, but I ask that we allow ourselves some patience. We're going to build a team around him, a very strong, young, aggressive team, and he is certainly a great fundamental building block for us to go forward on.

Ted Leonsis

I have gained a lot of international experience, which has also helped me with my confidence and patience when it comes to pressure.

Brooke Zimmerman

It's not a simple strategy and one that apparently takes a lot of patience. It's long-term brand building.

Brad Moore

Sin is the dare of God's justice, the rape of His mercy, the jeer of His patience, the slight of His power, and the contempt of His love.

John Bunyan

A little calm, a little patience. The will of the people will be respected. The victory will not be stolen.

Gerard Latortue

Mo's really not getting many pitches to hit, ... He doesn't have the patience of Barry Bonds.

Felipe Alou

My tragic view of life... leads me to have little patience with the chronic complaining I hear in modern society from people who have so much yet act as if life and society have conspired to oppress them.

Dennis Prager

There will be many (happenings) this year that try people's patience, and all we can do to cope with them is through prayer.

Irianti Erningpraja

I thought tonight was a solid, patient game and patience paid off.

Claude Julien

This is an exercise that requires flexibility and patience. In the next couple of days, we'll have evacuees in Washington. We'll still have them.

David A. Catania

We can't have any patience. I think our patience is done. We need to get out there.

Michelle Cervantez

The talks are very difficult and have lasted for a long time, but patience must not be lost.

Vlado Buckovski

Our patience wasn't there and the tempo and continuity in our offense was off.

Chad Allan

Patience is probably a pretty good word to describe them.

Chris Phenicie

I have just lost my patience with the criminals and the thugs and the sexual predators. One thing I'll do, I'll find the toughest legislation out there and enact it in Nebraska.

Dave Nabity

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.

Saint Francis de Sales

We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.

Muammar Qadhafi

We didn't have good patience on offense. We didn't execute well or take advantage of getting it inside. We had good looks from the outside; we just didn't knock the shots down.

Wayne Cafferty

We appreciate students' and parents' patience and the hard work of the counselors and staff.

John Kellogg

I think the job will get done if we have enough patience and perseverance.

Wallace Anderson

School yourself to demureness and patience. Learn to inure yourself to drudgery in science. Learn, compare, collect the facts.

Ivan Pavlov

It will work itself out, but patience is something that people need to exercise at this point.

Jeff Grady

I'm looking forward to competing in the is historic Formula 1 circuit. Upon my first impressions the track looks narrow and tight, I know that patience will be part of the game plan.

Paul Fix

More impressive is he did it a lot with two strikes. He can fall behind in the count and showed a lot of patience, worked a lot of counts from two strikes to a walk. He's been very impressive.

Tony Tijerina

My biggest weakness is patience, wanting to see things happen too quickly or get changes in place right away. Not having the patience to let things develop.

Paul Gleason

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?

Elbert Hubbard

It (baking) is very artistic but exact and I'm very detail oriented. You have to have a lot of patience, which is why a lot of American men can't handle it.

Anne Mcmanus

Baseball and football are very different games. In a way, both of them are easy. Football is easy if you're crazy as hell. Baseball is easy if you've got patience. They'd both be easier for me if I were a little more crazy - and a little more patient.

Bo Jackson

Its going to require patience and cooperation of everyone to find a solution.

John Lyons

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

Saadi

I think a team's going to have to have a little patience with him because he hasn't done it for very long. It's kind of a wait and see thing with Ray, but he's got the ability; he's got the tools to do it.

Lou Anarumo

The world community should understand that there is a limit to India's patience.

Atal Behari Vajpayee

I got so far and I knew that at some point I would kind of level off and have to focus on different things. I sort of feel like I'm getting to that point now: it's more patience now, and experience, and time.

Tani Mintz

We have to overcome with patience what separates us and treasure what brings us closer and unites us.

Alexander Lukashenko

When traveling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.

Helen Hayes

Everyone here has incredible patience.

Heather Becker

Its really (about) attracting the right investor who has the patience to get through the remaining permits and the construction.

Ian Calkins

Really, he just spread his stance out, shortened his stride and a little patience always helps. That's been the major difference with him.

Terry Pendleton

To come out there today and show patience like he did is not that easy to do when you're hitting white balls around all the time.

Jimmy Maher

Patience is the art of hoping.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

The mainland has patience now. We can wait. We can maintain the status quo for a period of time.

Xu Shiquan

This is a stage the requires much patience. We don't expect a tremendous turnaround. We're hoping for the best.

Shmuel Shapira

If you're struggling or young, you couldn't have a better guy. Because he has unbelievable patience and perseverance.

Mike Price

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

Richard Cecil

We played our best game of the year defensively and showed great patience on offense.

Andy Werner

We are determined (to carry out) a great jihad to lift the sanctions, ... There is no alternative to this after seven years of patience and cooperation with the United Nations and its committees.

Taha Yassin Ramadan

We're doing really well. We're keeping our possessions and having patience before taking a shot.

Ally Stroup

We knew if we were going to have a chance against Michigan we were going to have to get some clutch hits. We showed a lot of patience at the plate in the seventh inning and Lindsey Cameron came through with that clutch hit.

Tim Walton

If it takes patience to move this process forward for Vermont, then we have patience. If it takes persistence, we have persistence.

David Babbott

Teachers are people too and they can lose patience just as well as anyone can. Everyone's got their level of tolerance. Even the best of folks can lose it now and then.

Kathy Christie

He was on fire and, when somebody's on fire like that, they try to carry it through the whole game. But when I needed ball-control and patience a little bit as a team, he dialed into that.

Ron Palcic

Our concentration and patience were terrific. We knew what we wanted and waited until we got it.

Chester Coach Scott Langerock

Patience, patience, patience. I was telling my mom, I'm tired of hearing that, ... But I understand it.

Frank Gore

Genius is eternal patience.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

She's always, sometimes to a fault, courteous and has great patience with people. She's been a terrific employee of this athletic department for the last 28 years.

Jeff Charles

Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.

Guy Kawasaki

It is a lesson in patience, perseverance and faith for everyone involved. I think we realize just how much we're not in control.

Debbie Orlandini

Patience, I guess. We still have some time.

Pierre Lueders

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.

Comte de Buffon

It's kind of a strange situation to be in. There are not a lot of guys to go to for advice or solace ... You've just got to have patience. We all have to have some patience.

Tim Ireland

There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.

Larry Hagman

Patience cures many an old complaint.

Irish Proverb

He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.

William G. Golding

You just learn patience, and you learn that some things are out of your control.

Jim Denny

Practice with Patience and Persistence.

Kevin Miller

I do it in the morning because I have no patience to wait to open them.

Miikka Kiprusoff

It's been very frustrating. I wish I could put on the uniform and get out there sometimes. But it teaches you a lot about patience.

Jordan Farmar

I'm older and wiser, and while patience is still a virtue most coaches lack, it's obviously part of the equation.

Beth Burns

I was happy with the patience our kids played with at the end of the game. We took care of the ball and didn't panic. The kids are playing good basketball so far. The key for us now is to keep working hard and continue to improve.

Mark Ritter

Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.

Philip Massinger

Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.

Holbrook Jackson

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Saint Augustine

Apparently this is the answer of the Palestinian Authority to our gesture of peace, ... and I must tell you that our patience has limits as we are witnessing an escalation of a war of terror against us.

Avi Pazner

LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience.

Ambrose Bierce

We're asking people for their patience.

Tim Wood

We should have won by more, we needed some more patience, but I love the work ethic and the way we are playing for each other.

Pat Lam

Learning patience takes a lot of patience!

Tim Hansel

In the second half, we just settled down against their zone and showed some patience.

Steve Hook

We are going to wait with a lot of patience.

Otton Solis

Sometimes the judges try to help them. Sometimes the judges run out of patience.

Mike Benito