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Patience Quotes

You know, I lose patience really easily; I’d rather shop in the grocery store than in the department store. I can pick an apple like nobody’s business.

– Gail Simmons

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

– Francis Bacon

Because of my capacity for listening to strangers’ tales, or the details of their lives, my patience with their food and their crotchets, my curiosity that borders on nosiness, I am told that anyone traveling with me experiences an unbelievable tedium, and this is why I choose to travel alone.

– Paul Theroux

Generations of gun owners have taught their sons and daughters that it takes as much patience and skill to be a good shot as it does to be a good steward of a powerful weapon.

– Gabrielle Giffords

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

– Francis Quarles

In a world where people are hungry for quick fixes and sound bites, for instant gratification, there’s no patience for the long, slow rebuilding process: implementing after-school programs, hiring more community workers to act as mentors, adding more job training programs in marginalized areas.

– Dan Hill

The perfect ham and cheese sandwich is all about focusing on quality ingredients and about simple techniques. You start with great bread, a well-cured ham and a sharp local cheese, and the rest is easy. A little butter in a pan and a little patience – in the end you’ll have a sandwich that is at once comforting and delicious.

– Daniel Humm

I have embraced crying mothers who have lost their children because our politicians put their personal agendas before the national good. I have no patience for injustice, no tolerance for government incompetence, no sympathy for leaders who fail their citizens.

– Donald Trump

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

– Elizabeth Taylor

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

– Phillips Brooks

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

– George Santayana

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

– Eknath Easwaran

I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.

– David Duchovny

Like anyone, you could love someone, and it doesn’t mean that you’re equipped or you were taught or have the patience or the love or the wherewithal to be a good parent. One has nothing to do with the other.

– Elizabeth Rodriguez

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

I think you can judge from somebody’s actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there’s a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.

– George W. Bush

With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

– Daisaku Ikeda

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

– Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Temperamentally I’m not a natural producer, because I don’t have the patience.

– Damian Lewis

The principle part of faith is patience.

– George MacDonald

Patience is sorrow’s salve.

– Charles Churchill

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

– Peter Marshall

My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out.

– Frances O’Grady

No, I wouldn’t direct a movie, no. I couldn’t. I don’t have the patience for it, I don’t have the people skills. You have to be clever. I’m not really clever in that kind of way. And you have to be able to manipulate people, but at the same time allow them to feel like they are manipulating you, to get the kind of movie that you want.

– Nick Cave

Kids teach you a lot of patience.

– Mona Singh

No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.

– Gary Zukav

I’d like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I’ve tried to meditate, but it’s really hard for me to stay still. I’d like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can’t shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.

– Ellen DeGeneres

When you bat, you need to have a lot of patience. I started training for it from the age of eight or nine. So, I knew what I needed when I stepped on the field to bat.

– Mohammad Azharuddin

When I have a job to do, time means nothing. I lose patience with people who work on a clock.

– Don Cornelius

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

– Cleveland Amory

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