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Quotes About Patience

A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience.
~ William Shakespeare
Listening takes practice, and it takes patience. But I promise, if you listen, your story will be better for it.
~ Howard Gordon
The Lord did strengthen them that they could bear up their burdens with ease, and they did submit cheerfully and with patience to all the will of the Lord.
~ Joseph Smith, Jr.
I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new; While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.
~ Alexander Pope
My feelings for you are not conditional. I don't judge you. I don't lose patience with you. I don't punish you. I just love you. That's all. Pure and simple.
~ Alyson Noel
LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience.
~ Ambrose Bierce
I didn't have the patience for the research, or anything like that. I just like how it sets the imagination off. It's just an area that's very fertile for great words. Great metaphors, potentially.
~ Andrew Bird
It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown.
~ Arthur Helps
Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!
~ Ayn Rand
It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion and all made of wishes, All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance
~ William Shakespeare
Change needs practice. And practice needs patience.
~ John Fairclough
The only skills I have the patience to learn are those that have no real application in life.
~ John Calvin
He surely is most in need of another's patience, who has none of his own.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
A true Christian man is distinguished from other men, not so much by his beneficent works, as by his patience.
~ Horace Bushnell
Where annual elections end, there slavery begins ... Humility, patience, and moderation, without which every man in power becomes a ravenous beast of prey.
~ John Adams
There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
ROSS You must have patience, madam. LADY MACDUFF He had none: His flight was madness: when our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors.
~ William Shakespeare
To be a biographer is a somewhat peculiar endeavor. It seems to me it requires not only the tact, patience, and thoroughness of a scholar but the stamina of a horse.
~ Nancy Milford
Vision rarely require immediate action. It requires patience.
~ Andy Stanley
Science demands patience.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Our patience is not infinite. We're not willing to let this go on forever.
~ Barack Obama
If Iran does not take steps in the near future to live up to its obligations, then the United States will not continue to negotiate indefinitely... Our patience is not unlimited.
~ Barack Obama
Iran has to live up to its international obligations. . . . The president has said that our patience is not unlimited.
~ Barack Obama
Don't halloo until you're out of the wood.
~ Benjamin Franklin