Patience, a quality revered by sages and seekers of wisdom throughout time, holds the power to transform our lives. It is the ability to maintain composure in the face of adversity, to navigate the ebb and flow of existence with grace. In today’s fast-paced and demanding world, cultivating patience has become more essential than ever. Let us explore a collection of insightful patience quotes that offer guidance and inspiration on this transformative virtue.
Amidst the chaos of modern life, patience serves as a lighthouse, guiding us to stillness and resilience. It is not a passive surrender, but an active choice to find harmony within ourselves and with the world around us. Patience teaches us to embrace the present moment, to relinquish our need for immediate results and to trust in the unfolding of time.
Patience: A Key Virtue for Inner Strength and Peace
The wise words of philosophers, poets, and spiritual leaders remind us of the profound wisdom embedded in patience. As we navigate the labyrinth of life, their guidance becomes a compass, steering us towards a deeper understanding of ourselves and others. These quotes encourage us to let go of impatience and to cultivate a mindset of acceptance, allowing for personal growth and fostering compassion.
In a world consumed by haste and instant gratification, we often overlook the transformative power of patience. It is through patience that we find strength, resilience, and a deeper connection to our inner selves. It is a virtue that allows us to face challenges with equanimity and to find peace in the midst of turmoil. By embracing patience, we embark on a journey of self-discovery and growth, nurturing our souls and creating a life of greater fulfillment.
Pregnancy has been a huge lesson in patience and in allowing myself to be open to whatever the day may hand me.
I wanted my own rock band and stuff like that, but things didn’t work out. I didn’t have the patience to write my own songs and learn it and everything.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
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.
When you bat, you need to have a lot of patience. I started training for it from the age of eight or nine. So, I knew what I needed when I stepped on the field to bat.
Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
The difference between rearing a child in your 20s and one in your 50s is one of patience.
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.
Patience is weapon. I learned that from my Laker days.
For me, most writing consists of siphoning out useless pre-story matter, cutting and cutting and cutting, what seems to be endless rewriting, and what is entailed in all that is patience, and waiting, and false starts, and dead ends, and really, in a way, nerve.
Being a father has fulfilled me in parts of my life that sustain me. It gives me a comfort and patience. All actors have this hole inside that they’re trying to fill by performing. I’m anxious to keep creating, but I’m not so desperate any more because I have the love and support of my kids and wife.
I’ve always admired teachers for their patience and purpose in choosing their profession.
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 learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It’s a voice of pain and victory.
Patience is the best medicine.
For me, patience is a virtue and the result is much more important than the road.
When you are a father, when you talk to your son or your daughter for the first time, they don’t understand you. Of course, you have patience, and you keep talking to them, and eventually they do understand.
I didn’t choose ‘Silver Spoons’. I think my mom and agent chose it because at that time there was a lack of patience on some of the people that were in charge of my career. I think there was a big offer on the table, and I think they took it.
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.
Sport’s about patience and keep working no matter the outcome.
I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it’s up to me to choose to develop them.
We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.
I haven’t got the patience for small talk, although I once saw a woman standing on her own in the corner, and I realised it was Monica Lewinsky, and I had the nicest evening with her – she was charming.
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.
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.
In a world where people are hungry for quick fixes and sound bites, for instant gratification, there’s no patience for the long, slow rebuilding process: implementing after-school programs, hiring more community workers to act as mentors, adding more job training programs in marginalized areas.
Honestly, I didn’t have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.
Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it’s cowardice.
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.
I think both running and science reflect certain character traits. I have endurance, patience, and ambition. I’m willing to work hard toward a goal, to push myself and overcome limits. Running and science both let me express these traits.
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.
I have no regrets about not having children. I still wait for the pang of guilt, but I have none. I tune into the television show ‘Nanny 911’ occasionally which reminds me how much patience and love it take to be a good parent.
Obviously, I did not start my Test career too well. With the bat, I was probably not quite ready to play at that stage. I was happy to go back to first-class system and learn my game a bit more, honing my skills, particularly my defence and patience.
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.
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.
When I returned from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1972, my father was running a forging business with a turnover of Rs 3.5 crore. But I had no patience and wanted to grow the business via exports.
I would love to write a screenplay for ‘Badlands’ one day. I don’t think I could ever have the patience to do it; I don’t even have the patience to write songs. I write some of the shortest songs ever because I don’t have the patience.
People have a little more patience for a taped piece than they do a live piece.
Al Unser Sr. was one of the smartest drivers I’ve ever raced against. And I often said, I wish I could’ve had some of his patience. I know it would have worked for me many times.
Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me – it was the sublime quality of patience – patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment – which I sadly lacked.
I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.
Chess taught me patience.
No, you’re not allowed to be bossy when you’re married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.
The very important thing you should have is patience.
The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren’t able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It’s called being human.
Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off.
Patience has its limits, take it too far and it’s cowardice.
The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.
You have to be very strong and headstrong to make your place. You have to know how to say no. Patience is very important.
You can’t jump from little things to big things. It just takes time and patience.
Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
When it comes to wildlife photography, you need to have luck and patience.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.
For some reason, every time I get a little bit under the weather, I’ve got zero patience.
Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.
The principle part of faith is patience.
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.
The most important thing I learned during games is to be calmer, to try to smooth over other people’s or my own mistakes, and not to tackle people unnecessarily. Patience was key for me.
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
When I have a job to do, time means nothing. I lose patience with people who work on a clock.
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 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.
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.
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?
Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.
An impatient person plays differently than a more patient person.
I have no patience for homophobia.
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.
Does anyone want to see a person who’s making the money that the newspapers say I’m making complaining, ‘Woe is me, my life is terrible, and people are being unfair?’ No one would’ve had any patience for that. I wouldn’t have any patience for that.
It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.
Everyone is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.
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.
Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
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.
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.
I have a tremendous amount of patience and tolerance when working with people, but if I ever feel the impulse to inhibit myself from doing one more take, or feel a need to apologize to someone for pushing, I know that that relationship isn’t gonna last.
As a result of the strategic patience policy, we now have North Korea testing four times an atomic weapon; they’ve violated numerous United Nations sanctions, U.S. sanctions by launching ballistic missile tests.
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.
I have an equal amount of patience as my grade-school children, which is not great.
My biggest fault? I guess it’s a lack of patience – not when I’m working, but when I’m not working.
The best thing Jay-Z ever taught me was patience.
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
Overeem is really smart when he’s fighting, had the patience to wait for the right moment.
For believers, both privilege and privation are a trial, and both demand responses: one demands service, and the other demands patience. The greatest privilege is to live well in flourishing lands; the greatest privation is to live in the midst of war, especially civil war.
Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
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.
My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I’ve been doing this for twelve years.
Golf has taught me a lot about patience and keeping my temper.
I have no patience for wasting time.
What’s nice about a lot of Wes Anderson’s films is that there’s a patience to it. I think that patience brings out a lot more funny things that you would miss otherwise if you just had to make quick cuts and keep the pace, whatever that pace is that bigger budget comedies have to have.
Editing is a lot about patience and discipline and just banging away at something, turning off the machine and going home at night because you’re frustrated and depressed, and then coming back in the morning to try again.
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.
I didn’t have the patience to wait to take a degree before starting work, because I wanted to run my own business.
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.
Patience has never been my strong suit.
As for goals, I don’t set myself those anymore. I’m not one of these ‘I must have achieved this and that by next year’ kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end.
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.
I’m very caring with animals. I think patience is a big deal, because animals are always jumping around. I love to take care of people, so I think I’d be a good vet. I always wanted to be a vet when I was little.
Kyrie Irving, before he even played one game of college basketball, had 7,000 fans on Twitter. Seven thousand. So these kids these days are put on this pedestal up here. I really think it discourages the value of hard work and of patience.
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.
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.
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.
I don’t have a lot of patience for movies that aren’t cleanly told.
Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.
That’s why I never became a director. I never had patience with people.
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
I would love to think I’d inherited my father’s patience. He’s a man who achieves a great deal through gentleness.
I took Pascal, and I was terrible. And then, when I went to NYU, I minored in computer science. I just couldn’t code. I just didn’t have the patience for it.
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.
You’ve got to be able to let things roll off your back, and you’ve got to have some patience.
Patience, the beggar’s virtue, shall find no harbor here.
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.
I wish I had more patience.
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.
I want to be in the Guinness Book of World Records. And I don’t have the patience to grow the longest fingernails in the world. Why not be the fastest woman on four wheels? It makes complete sense.
My mother is a ball of fire in the world, and I love that about her. But what I have learned from my stepdad is something as important, which is patience and compassion. Because when you are living with someone else, those two qualities go a long way.
Storytelling is about patience, about making sense of the moments of pathos and beauty that you find, and about carrying these moments back into your own life.
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.
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.
To anybody who says to me, ‘I’m in character,’ I say, ‘You should be in an asylum.’ If you don’t know that you’re pretending, then you should really seek medical help. I don’t have patience for that stuff.
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.
Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
I need a close contact to the client, whoever it is, and a commitment of the client to go out and do a process together. I want to do the best for him. I need his respect and his patience. I want to work with a sophisticated person who’s interested in a good building and not in my name.
I don’t really have the patience to do my hair, which is why it’s always parted down the middle, slicked, in a low ponytail or a messy high bun. I’m too lazy to do my own hair, but I like doing my makeup.
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.
I’m patient.
I’m a bit of a dynamite fisherman when it comes to cooking as I don’t have the patience, but I am a huge foodie.
Genius is eternal patience.
Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they’re tender. They have to be persistent.
Honestly, Americans are more open-minded and have the patience and the time for new types of music. In Australia and New Zealand, you must earn your place.
With patience, persistence, and partnership, we can create economic opportunity for every person willing to work hard for it.
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.
Hopelessness has surprised me with 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.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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.
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.
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.
You can’t make money on borrowed knowledge. If following Rakesh Jhunjhunwala was all it took to make money, a lot more people would be rich. It requires patience and you learn from mistakes.
I think there’s not much patience for organized labour, period, public or private sector.
I don’t play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.
Kids teach you a lot of patience.
Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.
I have learnt that patience is important: patience when you bowl and also in how you handle life.
As a young footballer, it’s not easy to come from Canada and then try to play in one of the best teams in the world. It takes time, especially at a young age. It takes a lot of patience to be able to play.
Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.
Nothing is ever quick. You have to grow an audience, keep them engaged, give them a reason to keep coming back so it will never be an overnight success. Have patience!
I wrote three stories on spec because I didn’t have the patience to convince people I could write.
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.
I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it’s not a Grateful Dead project, it’s a Me project.
My grandfather didn’t have any patience for little kids or their needs.
My patience level can be my weakness, but I know I can deal with anyone.
A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
In the midst of a burning-hot shaming, calling for patience and context and understanding and empathy can really land you in trouble.
I make really good pasta sauce. The secret to getting it right is just patience and love.
The patience that goes with the game, the little things that go along with the game, you have so much more time to think in golf than you do in football – you have to keep your thoughts positive. I’m not sure I’ve got that mastered.
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.
When generation changes,, things get outdated but then if you have talent and patience, you bounce back.
Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.
If I am told to be at a shoot at 10 A.M., I am ready on time. By 11:30, I lose my patience. After that, I keep threatening to leave the sets if they don’t begin soon. It works sometimes.
If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
When people see a legend, they call it a legend. But to be a legend, it’s a lot of hard work and patience. You can’t play for five or ten years and be a legend. It takes longer than that.
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.
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
A man with a silver spoon may get his share of supporters, but he can never be an inspiration for somebody! Patience and hard work are the key to every man’s success.
The biggest lesson my kids have taught me is to find the joy in little things, along with a healthy dose of patience.
There comes a time when you have to exercise patience.
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people’s patience.
If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
I think God’s really blessed me with patience. I’m good with a lot of things going on at once.
Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.
Patience is a virtue in life, of course, but it’s not something we F1 people have too much of.
I’ve learnt that you need to have a thick skin, lots of patience and be consistently good.
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).
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.
Watching ‘Moonlight,’ I just recognized this patience in the film – allowing moments to live and linger – and I just thought that was so beautiful.
Face-to-face conversation unfolds slowly. It teaches patience.
I wish I was a shredder that could play everything, but I don’t have the patience.
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.
There are very few things that I have any patience for that are not at least a little bit humorous.
Gardening is a working meditation for me. It helps me remember process, and it helps me remember patience.
Who shall resist Anti-Christ when he comes if we show such patience towards the vices and crimes of his precursors? By such leniency, we encourage kings to become tyrants and tempt them to withdraw every privilege and all jurisdiction from the Churches.
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
I’ve learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.
Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
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.
Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.
As wonderful as they were, my parents didn’t teach me anything about self-discipline, concentration, patience, or focus. If I hadn’t had a family myself, I probably never would’ve done anything. Marriage taught me responsibility.
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.
There’s not a lot of room anymore for what I call ‘made-up’ drama. The drama comes from real places now – marriage takes work and focus, the kid stuff takes patience and commitment. And if you don’t grow as people and as a couple, within all of that, then you’ve got some real drama.
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.
There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.
Business is a sprint until you find an opportunity, then it’s the patience of a marathon runner.
Patience was not my strong point.
A monk’s extraordinary patience can be a hindrance to desperate decision-making.
A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.
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.
I’ve learned that anything in life worth having comes from patience and hard work.
Basically, discipline, effort, patience and courage are hugely important core values for kids to grow up embracing.
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.
Learning patience was not an easy lesson.
It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
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.
When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.
I’ve always believed in staying in a positive frame of mind and allowing God to work and move. It’s about having patience.
I think it’s necessary for VR to start with an early adopter audience that’s highly engaged, and I think that means gamers. They’re the ones who have the high-end hardware and the expertise and the patience to sort through the uncertainty of it all.
The game of golf slows the whole world down and gives you time to think. Inner-city kids could learn a lot about patience.
When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.
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.
The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.
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 think writing novels has taught me more about the value of patience and being organized. I’ve learned to use timelines and wikis to track decisions and make sure everything still fits together. It’s both easier and harder than writing short fiction.
I believe that patience is fundamental in football. It is difficult as sometimes patience is not there. You must have a clear idea and a path you want to take.
Social media is a bit tricky but the key is in patience. I know it’s easier said than done, but I have been patient for six years and never gave up.
God gives me the children’s ministry heart and patience. This is what He wants. It’s awesome. I don’t know where He’s gonna take it – but God is building this thing.
After four years of experience – and especially after the match with Daniel Bryan at WrestleMania 27 for the U.S. title that ended up being a dark match – you’ve got to realize that patience is a huge key in this game.
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!’
I don’t have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.
In Germany, young players are given more time, more patience. In England, they prefer to buy already-high-level players rather than spending some time building up a really talented young guy.
I have discovered the virtue of patience and I don’t quite believe that taking a break for good reason can be a risk.
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.
Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
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.
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.
I’m patient with crossword puzzles and the most impatient golfer.
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.
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.’
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.
Coaching takes patience. I’m more enthused when teaching players who want it versus when I have to.
I tell people a lot of times, if you want to be a part of something, you never know, you kind of just have to be around. A lot of people don’t really have the patience for it, and they don’t stick around. Dre and I are still working together, and we have plenty of music for the future.
I have not the smarts or patience for political office.
A certain amount of impatience may be useful to stimulate and motivate us to action. However, I believe that a lack of patience is a major cause of the difficulties and unhappiness in the world today.
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.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
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.
To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.
Patience with family members and others who are close to us is vital for us to have happy homes.
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.
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.
There are three lessons in philanthropy – one, involve the family, especially the spouse. She can be a remarkable driver of your initiative. Two, you need to build an institution, and you need to scale it up. Choose a leader for philanthropy whom you trust. Three, philanthropy needs patience, tenacity and time.
You have to have patience to be a legislator.
I have learned that you need to have patience, perseverance, and faith in people to reach your goals.
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.
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.
I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.
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.
These short tracks are about patience. You have to show patience.
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.
Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.
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.
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.
When I first started submitting my work professionally – and we’re talking years and years ago – I had no patience for editorial response times. I hated waiting to hear back from people, hated waiting to see my work in print.
My friends wonder how I have the patience to engage with people on Twitter about topics such as diversity and why black British history should be taught in schools: surely it’s exhausting? And they’re right.
Be patient. Patience is the mother of all virtues.
Golf is all about patience – one tournament is four days long, 18 holes a day.
Football is business. It’s all about being quick, quick, quick – nobody has any patience nowadays. But then again, that is how things are in normal life, away from football.
God’s way of answering the Christian’s prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.
I don’t have the patience to be a non-creator.
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.
I went in to Reading with the full backing of the chairman, who was great to me, and I got 20 games. Even though it was a three-year project, and I was the guy who knew the club more than anyone, I got the sack after 20 games. Funnily enough, it had just started to pick up, but they lost their patience.
You can legislate behavior but you cannot legislate belief. Patience is what it takes. But patience doesn’t mean sitting around on your butt waiting for something to happen.
I tell people all the time, the status quo is so untenable to me. Like, literally, I have no patience for it.
Thank God my parents had an abundance of patience.
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.
Find patience in the breath of life.
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.
Because I’m the author of my screenplays I know what I’m looking for. It’s true that I can be stubborn in demanding that I get what I want, but it’s also a question of working with patience and love.
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
I try to have as much patience as possible.
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.’
In football a championship team is never bought, it’s built with time and patience.
You have to have patience, work hard and preserve in order to follow your dreams.
I always had that long-term vision. Even getting going with cinema, knowing it was such a long road to be able to make films, but I always had a long term. Whenever I was starting out, I had that patience.
The biggest challenge, I think for any new artist, is patience.
Patience, self-belief and regularity are three qualities that would take a young player to great heights.
I’m glad I didn’t know how much patience entrepreneurship required. It took some time to turn that into a strength of mine, so that would’ve presented an obstacle when I was younger.
Becoming a father allowed me to become a much better composer, because it allowed me to have tremendous patience. I have much more tolerance for opposing opinions, short attention spans, changes of heart. And faith in the future.
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.
Life is full of challenges, but I always have the Three Ps: Passion, patience and persistence. And the fourth one is pizza.
A strong willed woman is often feared. But more often she is pushed to the tether of her patience, forced to bend down.
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.
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.
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 can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.
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.
He that can have patience can have what he will.
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.
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.
Americans have less and less patience for the intrusive and divisive moral scolds who thrived in the bubbles of the Clinton and Bush years.
I like playing. I wouldn’t be a good coach. I don’t have the patience to be a coach.
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.
Sometimes things aren’t clear right away. That’s where you need to be patient and persevere and see where things lead.
Deep down, I know that I am a child of God who has inherited divine capacities; some of them I strive to develop, others are left languishing. I also have a human side. I lose my temper, lose patience and sometimes judge others and myself.
Samir is a well composed person. Dolly Bindra tried his patience big time.
I’ve never had the patience of a teacher.
Being a runner has brought me a lot of patience, and patience goes a long way in life.
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
While the 2011 revolution did not remove the regime, it has shortened the seemingly endless patience that many Egyptians once had for military rule.
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.
I tolerate lots of people I have no patience or respect for. Then, as soon as I can, I rat on them.
People make mistakes all the time. We learn and grow. If there’s patience and love, and you care for people, you can work them through it, and they can find their greatest heights.
The great saints were always great innovators… They had to be very strong people… principled people. And, apart from their principles, with great tenacity they had to have great reserves of patience.
Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.
God always has patience.
A nation may be born in a day, but the great truths which make for the glory and uplift of the race only through long ages permeate and control humanity. We must have the divine patience and understand the divine mathematics of a thousand years as one day.
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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 have no patience at all.
The greatest power is often simple patience.
Looking back, I didn’t have the patience to work in fashion. I like women so much, but I was never qualified to torture them in photo shoots. You have to be really tough and brutal.
I’m terrible with patience.
We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow.
I had no patience for films. It was only after I met Shah Rukh that I learnt to enjoy his passion for cinema.
I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
I pack a toothbrush, toothpaste, and deodorant. That’s it. I don’t have the time or patience for anything else. I’m a natural kind of guy. I don’t style my hair – never learned how.
As we conclude our exploration of patience quotes, let us carry the essence of these teachings in our hearts. May we remember that patience is not a destination but a lifelong practice, one that requires diligence and self-compassion. By embracing patience, we unlock the door to a more harmonious existence—a life filled with gratitude, understanding, and serenity.
In the words of the great Lao Tzu, “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” Let us learn from the wisdom of nature and allow patience to permeate every aspect of our lives. With patience as our guiding light, we can navigate the challenges and uncertainties of life with grace, finding solace in the knowledge that everything unfolds in its own time.
So, take a deep breath, let go of haste, and embrace the transformative power of patience. Allow it to infuse your days with serenity, and watch as your journey becomes a tapestry of resilience, strength, and inner peace.
