Patience is the most valuable trait of the endgame player.
Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.
For the far higher task of teaching fortitude and patience I was never fool enough to suppose myself qualified, nor have I anything to offer my readers except my conviction that when pain is to be borne, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.
Because you don't learn anything unless you can find the patience to read. TV takes that away from you. It robs you from your mind.
A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything!
The balance you have between drive and patience may be your master key to success.
The bane of sects, especially in Bengal, is that if any one happens to have a different opinion, he immediately starts a new sect, he has no patience to wait.
The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind.
Jesus says. "Acknowledge and accept who I want to be for you: a Savior of boundless compassion, infinite patience, unbearable forgiveness, and love that keeps no score of wrongs. Quit projecting onto Me your own feelings about yourself. At this moment your life is a bruised reed and I will not crush it, a smoldering wick and I will not quench it. You are in a safe place. " Brennan Manning. Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging
Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.
Patience is the strength of the weak, impatience is the weakness of the strong.
Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child. . . Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.
I have patience in all things - as far as the antechamber.
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
If there was no other proof of the infinite patience of God, a very good one could be found in His toleration of the pictures that are painted of Him.
Patience is a virtue, but there comes a moment when you must stop being patient and take the day by the throat and shake it. If it fights back; fine. I'd rather end up bloody at the end of the day, then unhurt with no progress made, no knowledge gained. I'd rather have a no, then nothing. I'd forgotten that about myself.
Baseball and football are very different games. In a way, both of them are easy. Football is easy if you're crazy as hell. Baseball is easy if you've got patience. They'd both be easier for me if I were a little more crazy - and a little more patient.
See your road through.
If, like the prophet Noah, you have patience in the distress of the flood, Calamity turns aside, and the desire of a thousand years comes forth.