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.
