Brilliant results don't just show up by chance. The finest things in life take patience, focus and sacrifice.
Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.
A life of rest and peace in God is good; a life of pain lived in patience is still better; but to have peace in a life of pain is best of all.
Of course I will look at anything, but I have not got the time or the patience to keep on looking at art that I know could be better. I don't want art that needs fixing, I want art that sends me back to the studio to fix my own.
A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles.
Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.
It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.
I have no patience for anybody who doubts me, none at all.
Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.
I was never capable of being an average pupil. I would either seem refractory to any teaching and give the impression of being completely dumb or I would fling myself on my work with a frenzy, a patience, and a willingness to learn that astonished everybody. But to awaken my zeal, it was necessary to offer me something I liked. Once my appetite had been whetted, I became ravenously hungry.
A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience!
Like Patience gazing on kings' graves, and smiling Extremity out of act.
Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
The hate which we all bear with the most Christian patience is the hate of those who envy us.
She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.