Quotes About Patience

Well, I'm not a violent person. You have to back off. People sometimes will try you and try you until you try not to, but you have to react. Normally, I just walk away.

I did a lot of violent junk just because I needed the money - alimony movies, you might call them - and then I decided to start turning down the junk scripts and wait for something better, no matter how long.

I hope to one day co-sign a lease with another person but, well, it doesn't plague me that I have yet to do so. Put it this way: I've never had to violently tug at my own pillow at 2 A.M. to get myself to stop snoring.

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.

Another thing that I don't like to do is show too much how it goes. I do it once in a blue moon. Sometimes there are lessons when I don't pick up a violin at all.

I live in Virginia alone, and sometimes there's too much time to think. So you turn on the TV, but sometimes that don't do, so you turn the music on, and sometimes that don't do, and so you try and write a song, and sometimes that don't do... So you just take it as it comes.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

Patience is a virtue; virtue is a grace.

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

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

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

Patience is a virtue in life, of course, but it's not something we F1 people have too much of.

If you were to ask me when I was 17 if I was mad because I didn't have a deal, I would have probably said, 'Yeah.' Now I'm so glad I got it when I got it. People tell you to be patient and wait. Patience is not a virtue of mine, but I think everything definitely happened the right way for me.

Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated.

Impatience is a virtue.

For me, patience is a virtue and the result is much more important than the road.

We might imagine that Jesus had many human faults. He failed most humanly, in my reckoning, when he killed the fig tree just because it didn't bear any figs for his breakfast; that was a disgraceful, bad-tempered thing to do, and to try and make a virtue of it by saying it was a demonstration of faith only made things worse.

The notion that patience is a virtue is something you don't fully appreciate until you're a parent. You need endless patience with little ones.

Patience, they say, is a virtue. Yet in times of emergency, the government needs to be able to make snap decisions and take bold, decisive action to protect the American people.

I have discovered the virtue of patience and I don't quite believe that taking a break for good reason can be a risk.

The practice of patience in crafting and process is a virtue that needs to come back.

Be patient. Patience is the mother of all virtues.

Continuity is a great thing; staying the course and being patient, those are important virtues. But also there is virtue in being realistic enough to know you have to make serious changes sometimes.

Investing is a virtuous habit best started as early as possible.