Patience Quotes About Character & Perspective – Page 2 | GloryQuotes

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.

Stanley Baldwin

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

Saadi

The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man.

Shana Alexander

Beware the fury of a patient man.

Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.

Holbrook Jackson

Abused patience turns to fury.

We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded.

Charles Kingsley

There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.

Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.

Philip Massinger

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.

Jesse Jackson

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.

Richard Cecil

The greatest power is often simple patience.

E. Joseph Cossman

It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.

Khaleda Zia

The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.

Ramakrishna

Penn State University is also nationally recognized for the exceptional research and patient care provided at the College of Medicine, located in my Congressional District in Hershey, PA.

Tim Holden

And we ask the American people to play an important part of our layered defense. We ask for cooperation, patience and a commitment to vigilance in the face of a determined enemy.

Janet Napolitano

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

Margaret Thatcher

And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.

Bainbridge Colby

I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.

Margaret Thatcher

The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.

Ralph Marston

Two minutes later the right arm was pointing normally and the reaction to the left appeared. The patient made no complaint at all about the experiment.

Robert Barany

The best doctors and the best hospitals in America, if they cannot get the patient information they need when they need it, it can lead to morbid consequences: Higher mortality.

Timothy Murphy

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickover

When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?

Jim Bishop

To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane.

Jane Harrison

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

Barbara Johnson

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.

David Mallet

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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.

Cleveland Amory

Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.

Charles Sturt

Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear.

Peter Stuyvesant

Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.

Bret Harte

Genius is eternal patience.

Michelangelo

Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one's patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days.

Joshua Slocum

He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.

William Golding

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 a former professional patient advocate, I believe prescription drugs are an essential part of high-quality medical treatment, and I supported enactment of the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act.

Sue Kelly

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.

Arnold H. Glasow

Cancer is a disease where the patient can contribute a great deal of help himself if he or she can retain their morale and their hopes.

George Carman

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.

George Jackson

The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.

Lawrence G. Lovasik

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.

John Major

Patience is sorrow's salve.

Charles Churchill

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.

David Wilkerson

The CARE bill is an important piece of patient-care legislation. It will improve the quality of radiologic procedures performed throughout the United States as well as assist in reducing the cost incurred by the Federal government for these procedures.

Charles W. Pickering

Healthcare providers will compete to offer the best record of patient safety at the lowest prices. Hospitals and patients will benefit from having accurate information about areas of excellence and areas that must be improved.

Timothy Murphy

I haven't got a lot of patience.

Jeffrey Katzenberg

With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

Daisaku Ikeda