Top 344 Patience Quotes

Here we have the best Patience Quotes from famous authors such as Butch Hartman, Mohnish Pabrai, Kelechi Iheanacho, Angelique Kerber, Thomas Perry. Find the perfect quotation from our collection.

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Life is full of challenges, but I always have the Three Ps: Passion, patience and persistence. And the fourth one is pizza.

The single biggest advantage a value investor has is not IQ. It’s patience and waiting. Waiting for the right pitch, and waiting for many years for the right pitch.

There is always a lot of competition at a big club like Manchester City, so I need to keep working hard, having patience and hoping for the best.

Patience, discipline – giving everything on court… This is what I’m trying to bring in every single match.

Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.

I always tell up-and-coming DJs you have to really love what you do and find that interest to drive you. It requires so much attention to detail, and it takes up a lot of your time. You hear a song, and there are so many little pieces that make that song work. It requires a lot of patience, diligence and resilience.

Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear.

Peter Stuyvesant
There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.

Chuck Tanner
You have to have patience and confidence that your things will let you know where they need to go. Particularly artwork. Paintings will tell you where they want to be.

Girls, they just have something that guys don’t have. They’ve got this patience and this motherly thing, we just don’t have that same patience as men.

I think God‘s really blessed me with patience. I’m good with a lot of things going on at once.

Niki Taylor
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
Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

Saint Francis de Sales
People ask me a lot about the values I got from playing for the Cubs for so many years. The value I got out of it was patience. A lot of people these days are not very patient.

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.

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.

Homer
Things that are uncomfortable and demand time and effort and patience we can switch off to. And I am intrigued by that concept. It’s about human tolerance.

One of the biggest lessons I’ve learnt is patience. It’s critical when raising a child.

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.

I worry that business leaders are more interested in material gain than they are in having the patience to build up a strong organization, and a strong organization starts with caring for their people.

I have no patience for homophobia.

There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.

Having patience is one of the hardest things about being human. We want to do it now, and we don’t want to wait. Sometimes we miss out on our blessing when we rush things and do it on our own time.

Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.

Yiannis Stournaras
If you list the qualities that we consider feminine, they are patience, understanding, empathy, supportiveness, a desire to nurture. Our culture tells us those are feminine traits, but they’re really just human.

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

Everyone is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.

Phaedrus
Ultimately, knowing God and reading the Word, it helps with patience with people, understanding, empathy and sympathy that they might not have that I have. If God gave it to me, why not exercise it?

Trai Byers
I think there’s not much patience for organized labour, period, public or private sector.

Kathleen Wynne
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.

I had a certain level of patience, but sometimes weathering the storm is a patient process. Every storm don’t pass fast. Every storm, it can be passing, but it can be getting stronger and stronger or it could be coming down hard.

Patience is the name of the game in Bollywood.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

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 think that most things, if you want to use them properly, take quite a lot of time and I don’t necessarily have the patience to sit down and read the instructions and follow the first bits to actually get the starting point.

For many years, I tried to make New Year‘s resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism and exert moral strength, patience and all those other great attributes.

I feel like I’ve always been a great fighter but I’m learning the patience part of it and not getting overwhelmed with emotion and adrenaline and going out there and brawling like a maniac.

There’s a randomness, even if you’re talented. This is a very unforgiving industry that puts you through the ringer. It is not easy by any means, but it’s one of those things that if you have the patience, the perspective, and the talent, it can really take off.

It’s a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.

I am blessed to be surrounded by the people I love. I thank them for their patience and grace.

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.

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

Losing your patience and your temper isn’t the most attractive thing, but as kids get older, you wind up raising your voice.

I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience.

This sport is growing. It’s about patience, rather than getting caught up in five in a row, want a title shot, main event. The goal is to put on a great fight and be smart.

Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.

Charles Sturt
It takes getting the right talent. It takes a lot of patience. It takes investment and passion and commitment and entrepreneurial spirit, and everyone in the organization must buy into that.

TV requires a lot more patience. No one’s ever like, ‘I gotta get up at 5 A.M. and write my stand-up!’ It’s an easy life. With ‘Silicon Valley,’ it’s long hours and very unglamorous.

I don’t have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.

What mistake all of us make when we are talking about a particular cricketer is that we say they are trying too much, the control is not there, there is no patience. These are cliched terms.

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

Sometimes things aren’t clear right away. That’s where you need to be patient and persevere and see where things lead.

Mary Pierce
I’m not about my breasts; I’m just about good health, OK. I’m not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don’t understand women who are in denial, who don’t want to go for a mammogram. I think it’s stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.

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.

Learning patience was not an easy lesson.

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.

Patience is key. You can’t get selfish, and that’s the number one thing I’ve learned at WWE. The world continues to go round, and I just knewgiven the right opportunity and the right moment – that the world would know I was good, but now the world knows that I’m great.

I don’t have the patience… an angry man cannot get into politics.

I always say that with work and patience, if you believe in your own talent, at the end, things come back; there’s no doubt about it.

I’ve learned patience.

Patience is a virtue; virtue is a grace.

Honestly, I didn’t have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.

So it’s been a slow process and it’s taken some patience. That’s why patients are called patients I think – patience is required.

Bowie Kuhn
Humility is attentive patience.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.

Negative thinking patterns can be immensely deceptive and persuasive, and change is rarely easy. But with patience and persistence, I believe that nearly all individuals suffering from depression can improve and experience a sense of joy and self-esteem once again.

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

Hyman Rickover
The great saints were always great innovators… They had to be very strong peopleprincipled people. And, apart from their principles, with great tenacity they had to have great reserves of patience.

It’s all about patience and I’m sure my time will come. I’m learning what it takes to be successful and I’m doing the things the coaches tell me.

And I have to be willing to be patient to allow God’s plan to unfold and not go ahead and try to make my own circumstances happen for me. So, I’ve learned that He can be trusted for every need and desire but at the same time that may require patience on my end.

I’ve learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.

Randy Travis
A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.

Tate Donovan
That’s the problem with our industry: patience. People want instant NBA stars, and that’s not going to happen.

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.

Khaleda Zia
All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

It’s funny with jeans now, because if they don’t feel like a pair of sweatpants, I don’t have patience for them anymore! I think I’m becoming increasingly lazy.

In my experience, not just in shooting films but in the commercials I’ve done, initially, it’s very exciting for the community, and its a real novelty. Very quickly, though, they realize there’s a buck to be had, and it becomes annoying, and they lose their patience pretty quick.

John Curran
I’ve worked so hard to eliminate the inner geek from my life. I suddenly realize I have no patience for those people who still have their geeks showing. Now I see why being ‘normal‘ has been so important to me.

With patience and persistence, even the smallest act of discipleship or the tiniest ember of belief can become a blazing bonfire of a consecrated life. In fact, that’s how most bonfires begin – as a simple spark.

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

Patience is weapon. I learned that from my Laker days.

I would say that my forte is cutting the line. My entire life‘s work is me having zero patience and not waiting in a line.

Religion has played a big part in eliminating the nuance in humanity. People began to believe things before they knew them. It stopped people from listening and learning with the patience and love of the God they believe in.

Samir is a well composed person. Dolly Bindra tried his patience big time.

Basically, discipline, effort, patience and courage are hugely important core values for kids to grow up embracing.

Patience is passion tamed.

Lyman Abbott
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
I don’t have much patience as I really like to work a lot and it is really hard to work a lot in movies because you have to have patience – every movie is a huge test of patience.

I’ve learned that anything in life worth having comes from patience and hard work.

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

I try not to set myself up as different or as a celebrity or special. I have a husband that can get on my nerves. I have kids that test my patience. I’ve got a cat I can’t keep off the sofa. It’s real. On a bad day, I’m reading ‘Acts of Faith.’

You have to have faith and confidence in yourself, that you are better than the bad guys you’re dealing with. You have to have a lot of patience.

God always has patience.

The biggest challenge, I think for any new artist, is patience.

Allah is with people who show patience. If you are down in the dumps, Allah will help you if you have belief. But this is a personal thing between you and him. You can’t fool Allah.

Coaching is a very different skill. You need patience, you need a lot of organisation. I don’t have any.

I have a business manager and a book-keeper who deals with our household bills. My husband and I sit down with her for a weekly report on how much money is going out, but I’m not terribly interested, and I don’t have the patience for it.

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

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
It costs to win, you need patience.

I was 25 myself once. I also thought I knew everything. I also thought that I could give singers singing advice and comics comedy advice. When you’re that age, you know it all, so I understand it. But when you’re tired and you don’t have patience for it, you definitely snap.

I have learned that you need to have patience, perseverance, and faith in people to reach your goals.

One thing that I am becoming to learn is that you’ve got to have patience and wait your turn in this game. I feel like I am progressing as an artist, as a writer and as a performer and I know that there will be that one moment that will change everything.

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

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
I still have to work on patience.

Being a father gave me a new purpose for existing. That newfound purpose has somehow given me the stamina and patience to take on the endless stream of challenges that come along with parenthood.

I think having even more patience in the ring is going to help step my game up even higher.

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
It took me a while to learn the true meaning of patience and surrender, but I have finally accepted that healing doesn’t happen on our schedule. It doesn’t have a clock or a calendar.

Being a caregiver requires infinite patience, physical and emotional strength, health care navigation skills, and a sense of humor – which can be hard to come by after sleepless nights and demanding days.

No one thought the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight would happen, but I had patience.

If I am right about the big picture, I will be rewarded for my patience.

Thomas Kaplan
You know, writing is really difficult, and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don’t know if I have that. I admire it in others, so much, and I envy it.

If you don’t have patience in this profession, you almost always end up getting bent out of shape expecting quick results.

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

When I was on the bench, I used to have a yellow pad, and I put on the pad at the beginning of the day, ‘patience’ and ‘restraint.’

Joseph Wapner
Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to respond when I’m tired or concerned with other things, forgetting he is very patient with me.

Evelyn Underhill
Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.

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.

Gardening is a working meditation for me. It helps me remember process, and it helps me remember patience.

Every game is won with patience.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.

Golf has taught me a lot about patience and keeping my temper.

I simply do not think that yelling, swearing, threatening or belittling will get you to the place you want to be faster than kindness, understanding, patience and a little willingness to compromise.

I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.

Luck is a component that a lot of people in the arts sometimes fail to recognise: that you can have talent, perseverance, patience, but without luck you will not have a successful career.

A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months‘ experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time – patience.

Stanley Baldwin
To become a professional, you have to train a lot, which I did from a very early age. Of course, it helps if your character is very competitive and you have patience and perseverance.

Coaching takes patience. I’m more enthused when teaching players who want it versus when I have to.

You’ve got to be able to let things roll off your back, and you’ve got to have some patience.

The two biggest things that translate from the pitching mound to hunting and fishing are patience and perseverance. When you’re on the mound, you have to take the game one pitch at a time, regardless of the score, and that approach helps when I’m in the woods or on the water as well.

It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time – until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form.

Hart Crane
As for direction, I definitely do not have the patience or the resilience to make a film. Directing a film is very, very hard.

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

Helen Hayes
Football has no patience.

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.

What separates old from the young is experience and patience.

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

Hal Borland
When you’re a crime reporter, you see the nub of what life’s about, and you don’t have much patience for the falsity of politics.

Like anything worth doing in life, happiness takes time and patience and consistency.

I know the 4Ps (Planning, Priority, Perspective and Patience), and I believe that this knowledge sets me apart from others, as I know exactly how to promote a song, where to promote it. And basically, how much money should be spent in doing all that.

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
In football a championship team is never bought, it’s built with time and patience.

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.

My dad said to me, ‘Work hard and be patient.’ It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in.

I don’t have the talent, the temperament, or the patience to be a great chef. I’d much rather order from someone who can really do it. I love restaurants. They make my life better.

I believe there’s too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.

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
The creative people I admire seem to share many characteristics: A fierce restlessness. Healthy cynicism. A real world perspective. An ability to simplify. Restraint. Patience. A genuine balance of confidence and insecurity. And most importantly, humanity.

Patience for me is a big thing. Patience with others. Patience with the way the world is evolving. I have a sense of urgency because I want to help out so much.

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

Patience, time, love, it heals all.

Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open.

After the match-fixing allegations, the one thing I had was patience. It took a lot of time for the courts to come to a verdict regarding the case. Sometimes, there were adjournments, but during that time, I had patience. We fought very hard, and finally justice prevailed, and we got the right verdict.

Patience may be the toughest thing when you’re injured.

I couldn’t be a director because I couldn’t put up with the actors. I don’t have the patience. Why, I’d probably kill the actors. Not to mention some of the beautiful actresses.

Spencer Tracy
To get nostalgic about other people’s music, or even about your own, makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future. I have no patience with that kind of attitude, whether it’s on radio or among friends.

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
The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.

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

As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future.

Thomas Edward Brown
That’s why I never became a director. I never had patience with people.

Ray Harryhausen
I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I’m concerned, you either read books for children or you read books for adults.

To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days.

George Tenet
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.

One fear setting on filmmakers is that the audience no longer has any patience. They want things to constantly move.

I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here.

Paul Bremer
Patience was not my strong point.

I think all musicians have at one time or another experienced one physical problem or another. I have had tendinitis a couple of times, so I try to be really careful. It takes patience and persistence to overcome injury.

Patience is sorrow’s salve.

Charles Churchill
We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around.

Ryan White
Scoring and fishing are comparable. In both cases, you must have patience and wait for the right moment to strike power with the utmost coolness.

It’s amazing, all of the ways that having kids has changed me. I’m a much less selfish person because of them, and compared to who I was before, my patience level seems infinite.

I would love to think I’d inherited my father’s patience. He’s a man who achieves a great deal through gentleness.

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

Face-to-face conversation unfolds slowly. It teaches patience.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

I startedSNL,’ 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.

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’m patient.

My grandfather didn’t have any patience for little kids or their needs.

Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience – I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.

A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don’t have the patience to learn.

He preacheth patience that never knew pain.

Henry George Bohn
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
Patience doesn’t mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that’s unfolding, rather than ripping open a budding flower or demanding a caterpillar hurry up and get that chrysalis stage over with.

The Italians are not indulgent, as Americans are. They don’t have the patience to teach young singers how to move. They think you should learn in school.

Marcello Giordani
Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it’s cowardice.

George Jackson
Arsene Wenger was always the kind of manager whose belief in his team’s qualities was steady as a rock and who approached matters with never-ending patience.

A strong willed woman is often feared. But more often she is pushed to the tether of her patience, forced to bend down.

For those of us learning the way to financial serenity and solvency, the envelope system teaches prudence, patience, and perseverance. You can only spend what you have.

Patience is the art of hoping.

Luc de Clapiers
Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it’s our obligation to do something with it. Obviously, it’s a challenge – but if you’re not taking the bull by the horns, I have no patience for you. You’re just taking up space.

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.

Phaedrus
There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Give your dog or cat respect, patience, understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week, that’s a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel.

I have not the smarts or patience for political office.

I love yoga because it allows me to slow down and experience how good it feels to be in relationship to my body. It teaches me patience, acceptance, and how to receive.

Let us wait in patience for the Christ-child whose own life depended on the lives of Mary and Joseph. The Word of God was made flesh. He came so that we might experience the fullness of time.

Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you’re going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.

Randy Johnson
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.

I have no patience for wasting time.

The biggest lesson my kids have taught me is to find the joy in little things, along with a healthy dose of patience.

A monk‘s extraordinary patience can be a hindrance to desperate decision-making.

The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited.

Tom Lantos
Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

When I’m training for a fight, I’m not the same person that I normally am when I’m at home. I’m always thinking about fighting. I’m doing it day in and day out. Pretty soon, my personality starts to change. My temper’s a little bit shorter, I don’t have a lot of patience for a lot of things.

I would say I’m a boss who’s learning, and I hope people have the patience for the fact that I’m learning along the way because that’s a tough thing.

I’m terrible with patience.

I’m not really easy to live with! There needs to be unlimited patience and unconditional love. Men I’ve known before loved my independent spirit and were proud of my success, to the point that they’d become jealous of the time I devote to my career.

I wrote three stories on spec because I didn’t have the patience to convince people I could write.

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

I have no patience for anyone who thinks they’ve figured things out, no patience for people who think they’re right at the expense of everyone else. The world is too connected and too complicated to conform to any of our rigid ideas of what it should be like.

Football demands patience. Keep working and you will be rewarded.

The principal reason for the universe‘s poker face is that its constituents are far away. Stars careen through space, and galaxies spin at speeds thousands of times faster than a jet plane. But given their distance, you’d need the patience of Job to notice much change in their appearance or position.

Punk rock has never really had much patience with musical virtuosity. Actually, it’d be more accurate to say that for most of its history, punk has been actively hostile to virtuosity.

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

Raising children uses every bit of your being – your heart, your time, your patience, your foresight, your intuition to protect them, and you have to use all of this while trying to figure out how to discipline them.

There are times when I surprise myself with the kind of patience I have shown and then there are times when I felt that I could have handled it easily but I made a mountain out of a mole.

Neha Pendse
When you’re short on sleep, you’re short on patience. You’re ruder to people, less tolerant, less understanding. It’s harder to relate and to pay attention for sustained periods of time.

In white-ball cricket, things are different – over there, you outsmart the batsman, and over here in Test cricket, it’s all about patience and consistency.

With care and patience, people may accomplish things which, to an indolent person, would appear impossible.

Abused patience turns to fury.

One of the things I’ve been taught by Native American elders is the importance of patience, of waiting to do things when the time is right.

Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

What I relish most is when a member of my staff, who has worked with passion and patience towards achieving their dream of owning a restaurant, walks up to me and says, ‘Nobu! I have done it!’

When it comes to wildlife photography, you need to have luck and patience.

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

Holbrook Jackson
Opera is complex for those who perform it, but also for those who listen to it. It takes more time, more patience and more spirit of sacrifice. All this is well worth it because opera offers such deep sensations that they will remain in a heart for a lifetime.

I recall my mum tried to teach me how to fry chicken once, and I almost burned down half the kitchen… I don’t think I have the patience for cooking.

‘Deadpool’ took seven years to get to the motion picture screen, and I use that as my measurement. That tested me and my patience more than anything I could’ve imagined because the screenplay was so good.

I don’t have the patience to be a non-creator.

Beauty, unlike the rest of the gifts handed out at birth, does not require dedication, patience and hard work to pay off. But it’s also the only gift that does not keep on giving.

A perfect chutney needs patience. If you are cooking it, cook it on a low flame; the flavors come out the best that way.

I like playing. I wouldn’t be a good coach. I don’t have the patience to be a coach.

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

Sport has taught me never to be jealous of someone or insecure if somebody is doing well. It’s taught me teamwork and the value of patience. Even If I lose, I know that I’ve actually not lost.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

My mum told me to have patience. It’s about realising that when things aren’t going the way you want them to, or you don’t have inspiration, it will come.

I have fully retired as a choreographer. I do not have the patience now to make actors learn their steps. For me, that ship has sailed. I have enjoyed 22 years of it.

Shiva Nirvana‘s dedication and patience are adorable.

Gopi Sundar
Seeing all of these beautiful brown faces and having that patience for them to live in whatever it was that they were living in; I was just so blown away by the artistry that I recognized in ‘Moonlight‘ – the colors, the music.

The term ‘alpha female‘ originated in my field of animal behavior, but has acquired new meaning. It refers to women who are in charge, for example, by flirting and dating on their own terms. It is also used maliciously for a loud-mouthed, controlling woman who has no patience with deviating opinions.

This is the story of what a Woman’s patience can endure, and what a Man’s resolution can achieve.

Wilkie Collins
I’m not a perfectionist. I don’t have enough patience to go over the same details over and over trying to get it perfect.

Indeed, this life is a test. It is a test of many things – of our convictions and priorities, our faith and our faithfulness, our patience and our resilience, and in the end, our ultimate desires.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

My Mum was the main reason why I became a chef. She influenced all of my family to feel free in the kitchen – it was the centre of our home and I have wonderful memories of helping Mum cook and experiencing the love and patience that went into the food.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

Evelyn Underhill
There is an old tool that has become very handy that is called strategic patience, which is do not overreact in the short-term. Take your time. See what is the underlying, real message. And then, once the reality is represented by actions, then decide how you are going to react to those actions.

When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?

Jim Bishop
I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

The only thing you have to have is patience and an attitude that you aren’t ever going to give up.

It is necessary for him who would endure existence with patience that he should conceive himself to be something – that he should be persuaded he is not a cipher in the muster-roll of man.

The cowards and the impatient can enjoy one night stands as it takes a great deal of patience, unconditional love, trust, fearlessness and a deep sense of individuality to maintain relationships.

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

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

James J Corbett
You can write ten versions of a scene, and then, on the day, discover that something in the original scene worked. It’s hard on writers. Hard on actors, hard on editors, hard on me, hard on the producers, who require patience and confidence. But I can’t get to the end without going through this process.

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

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

Philip Massinger
Politics is a game of great patience. A woman has to hold her ground and maintain dignity, holding her head high.

The first thing I do when I get up is pray and meditate to center myself for the day ahead. I ask for inspiration in my creative endeavors, guidance in my relationships and patience in my journey. It’s a great way to get focused for the day.

If I spent all my time criticising myself, I wouldn’t be able to function. There are actors who theorise till the cows come home. I haven‘t the patience for them. It’s maybe shallow, but that’s why I’ll never be part of the acting set.

Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will – that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.

The key to sauces is having patience. I’m not a patient woman, but I learned with sauces that you have to get everything on a slow roll and layer the flavors. That’s where you get robust tastes: it starts one way and ends another.

Horses teach you patience and how to do things the right way so you can get the right result.

To be an actor, you have to have patience.

My wife makes fun of me by calling me a grandpa because I have very little patience for inconsiderate children. So if we’re walking in the mall, and some kid goes by really fast on a skateboard, I become the grumpiest eighty-five-year-old man in the world and start screaming at them.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

The best thing Jay-Z ever taught me was patience.

When I became the assistant, I was intelligent and helpful. I had patience. As the head coach I was completely the opposite. I made a good decision to get out.

I wish I was a shredder that could play everything, but I don’t have the patience.

Dave Navarro
Being a wife and mother are the single most important roles in my life. They take a lot of work, a lot of patience, and help from God and His Word, but if you put in the effort, it’s more fulfilling than anything on earth.

The difference between rearing a child in your 20s and one in your 50s is one of patience.

I feel like I take a lot of pride in the patience that I play with.

I think every war certainly wears on national will and national patience, particularly a counterinsurgency.

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

Of course I would never compare myself to someone who actually went through a war, but I definitely matured shooting ‘The Pacific.’ I’m more calm and I have more patience.

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
My patience level can be my weakness, but I know I can deal with anyone.

Urfi Javed
My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you’ve got to be a filmmaker.

Robert Wise
I think the most important mantra in my life has been and will continue to be – patience, hard work and will power.

Sometimes I think I’m a bit impatient, and a bit more patience would help me in some cases.

I’ve no patience for people who say they never watch television. It’s a great way to keep in touch with popular culture, and it’s important that children can relate to what their schoolmates are watching.

Patience is the best medicine.

John Florio
Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading – even browsing – an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search. Patience is a virtue, gluttony a sin.

My life was forever changed by people who took the time and had the patience to learn my story and to share theirs with me. They forsook judgment and came to me with kindness and empathy and the impact of that decision was huge.

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

Matthew Arnold
The greatest power is often simple patience.

Those lumpen mercenaries who make money on the back of the destiny of all, those who call for invasion, those who continuously offend in words and acts… would be well advised that this people’s patience has limits.

Before you have kids, you can blow up and get mad, then you have kids and they teach you the opposite. You have to be patient when you’re helping – whether it’s with school work or potty training, it’s a whole other level of patience.

Interns can be hard on me and I’m hard on them. They have no experience and I have little patience when they don’t know how to address an envelope or can’t put a date in the calendar properly (I mean literally, like with the right floor number or proper cross streets).

I’ve always been a person with patience, and I don’t like to force things.

I had to learn about patience, to let the music get its own spirit and voice.

I am an attacking batsman, but I’ve learned a lot about patience. There are clever bowlers who can pick your weak points, so I have to be a bit patient, play out a spell or two.

Sandy Meisner would say it takes 20 years to make an actor. Some people it takes five, some people 30. And you have to have patience and forgiveness for yourself. It’s hard when you see people at your age or younger becoming successful.

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.

Arnold H Glasow
When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and Nineties, I learnt the meaning of patience. And when I worked with trees, I learned the meaning of humility.

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?

The Lord, Jesus Christ, is our perfect example of patience.

It’s about listening to the land and being patient and being ready to absorb our dreaming or our path or our destiny slowly, with patience, being ready to absorb that when it’s time and not chasing it.

With patience, persistence, and partnership, we can create economic opportunity for every person willing to work hard for it.

A noun is not a name you give something. It is something you watch becoming itself, and you have to have the patience to find out what it is.

It’s amazing. My kids have grown me in ways I never knew possible. The patience I’ve received and the love I get from them is just amazing.

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

Franklin P Jones
When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.

I tell people all the time, the status quo is so untenable to me. Like, literally, I have no patience for it.

Watching ‘Moonlight,’ I just recognized this patience in the film – allowing moments to live and linger – and I just thought that was so beautiful.

Americans have less and less patience for the intrusive and divisive moral scolds who thrived in the bubbles of the Clinton and Bush years.

The principle part of faith is patience.

George MacDonald
I’m constantly looking for ways to learn and elevate your craft, patience for yourself, and patience for this business. It’s not a fair business. You may be great, but it may take years for someone to notice what you’re capable of because of politics.

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.

Serbia has shown enough patience, but it has also sent a clear and strong message that the law must be respected and that no one is stronger than the state.

Ivica Dacic
The writer’s secret is not inspiration – for it is never clear where it comes from – it is his stubbornness, his patience.

I don’t know the definition of a star; I am just an actor. I prefer doing hard work, as I feel luck can’t do much in absence of hard work. I am a lazy person – when I entered into this industry, I thought it was a cakewalk, but I have realised it needs a lot of patience and hard work.

Kevin McHale was a master communicator and knows how to coach stars, and that’s a unique gift because you take an old-school guy that’s used to coaching his way, he’d have a hard time coaching them cats now, but Kevin knows how, and he has the patience of Job.

I don’t think patience is something that any of us grow up with in a large dose. It’s a world of instant gratification.

Being a family member is hard no matter where you are. It’s hard to be a kid. It’s hard to be a parent. It’s hard to be a brother or sister. It takes patience and kindness and forbearance.

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.

Speaking from my experience as a person involved for a long time in building the European Union, it is important to have patience and efforts to build a community of nations.

Giorgio Napolitano
Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

America is a great country. It has a lot of work to do. The bottom line is it’s easy to talk; it’s easy to have the media pick up on something, and it’s hard to have the patience to put something in place you can build on that will make sure each citizen has their equal rights.

I learned patience. I’m not a real patient guy, but with me trusting in my coach, my managers and my team, I just trust the process and just continue to stay patient and just follow suit.

Sport’s about patience and keep working no matter the outcome.

Yes, you tend to lose patience but selection is not in your hands. All you can do is perform, perform and perform and that’s what I enjoy doing.

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.

You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you’re an entrepreneur and go into the family business, you want to grow fast. Patience is important. But respect the other party… My dad and I pulled it off because we really respect each other.

Patience has never been my strong suit.

Michael Chiklis
I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

Robert Falcon Scott
The biggest advice I can give loved ones who are supporting someone navigating a newly diagnosed mental illness is patience, patience, and patience.

I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.

Bear patiently with a rival.

When I have a new idea, I’m charged up and want to start the film immediately, but I simply don’t have the patience to wait for stars.

To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

I have always had tremendous amount of patience, compassion and forgiveness.

I think young people don’t appreciate that when you’re in your 70s, you’ll lose patience for techie stuff and you may decide that you want a simple device.

I have an equal amount of patience as my grade-school children, which is not great.