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Patience Quotes

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

– Julius Caesar

I would be horrible at Twitter. I wouldn’t know the answer to fans’ questions half the time – and the patience involved! I couldn’t imagine. I did have a Twitter account that I tried for a couple days, but found I had nothing to say.

– Jim Parsons

My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I’ve been doing this for twelve years.

– Christina Milian

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

– Jean de La Fontaine

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

– Ambrose Bierce

I’m a peace-maker, I can fit into a lot of situations. I’m pretty easygoing. I have a lot of patience.

– Jennifer Garner

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

– Billy Graham

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

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

– Barbara Johnson

Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

– James J. Corbett

Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.

– Ingmar Bergman

Kindness is really important to me in finding my own prince – so are patience and a sense of humor. Without those qualities he’s no Prince Charming!

– Anne Hathaway

Beware the fury of a patient man.

– John Dryden

In this day and age, you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business.

– Brett Ratner

There was a solid year and a half, perhaps two years, after making ‘Temple Grandin,’ when I didn’t do anything. I just didn’t have much patience for roles that were silly, or light, or inconsequential.

– Claire Danes

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

The moment a large investor doesn’t believe a government will pay back its debt when it says it will, a crisis of confidence could develop. Investors have scant patience for the years of good governance – politically fraught fiscal restructuring, austerity and debt rescheduling – it takes to defuse a sovereign-debt crisis.

– Andrew Ross Sorkin

There are three lessons in philanthropy – one, involve the family, especially the spouse. She can be a remarkable driver of your initiative. Two, you need to build an institution, and you need to scale it up. Choose a leader for philanthropy whom you trust. Three, philanthropy needs patience, tenacity and time.

– Azim Premji

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

– Charlie Chaplin

A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it’s tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?

– Aaron Spelling

I started ‘SNL,’ and I became the one who did impressions. I did that, but then I wanted to get an original character on, and that took a long time to get one on that stuck. And then I got Vinny Vedecci on – ‘Oh great’ – and then it took a couple more seasons to get Greg the Alien on. You have to have some patience.

– Bill Hader

Because we men have been physically stronger and more arrogant, we’ve influenced much of the cool stuff of the world, like basing the definition of courage on what we do on battlefields rather than on the patience or endurance or tolerance necessary for a sometimes painful daily grind that includes small children.

– Clyde Edgerton

Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?

– Andrew Greeley

I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It’s a voice of pain and victory.

– Anthony Hamilton

Writing takes a lot of patience. It usually takes me a year to write a book. One time, it took me 14 years to write a book, not that I worked on it every day.

– Avi

I have no regrets about not having children. I still wait for the pang of guilt, but I have none. I tune into the television show ‘Nanny 911’ occasionally which reminds me how much patience and love it take to be a good parent.

– Amanda Donohoe

The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord’s promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards.

– Charles Stanley

I don’t have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies themselves the pleasure of a bloody hunk of steak or a pungent French cheese because of some outdated nonsense about what’s appropriate or attractive.

– Anthony Bourdain

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 de Mandeville

He that can have patience can have what he will.

– Benjamin Franklin

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