“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.”
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“Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.”
“Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.”
“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.”
“I have not the smarts or patience for political office.”
“Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.”
“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.”
“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.”
“With love and patience, nothing is impossible.”
“Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.”
“I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.”
“It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.”
“I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project.”
“Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.”
“Find patience in the breath of life.”
“The greatest power is often simple patience.”
“How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?”
“Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.”
“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.”
“I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.”
“Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.”
“There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.”
“I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.”
“I'm terrible with patience.”