Glory Quotes

Patience Quotes – Page 3

271 quotes

Beware the wrath of a patient adversary.

John C. Calhoun

Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease. Sometimes the stone, on passing, kills the patient, without waiting for the gout.

Thomas Sydenham

Patience is passion tamed.

Lyman Abbott

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.

Paul Kane

The patient is in intensive care but still alive.

Javier Perez de Cuellar

In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.

Ike Skelton

I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress.

Elizabeth Montagu

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.

Bill Brandt

Find patience in the breath of life.

Ryunosuke Satoro

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?

Paul Sweeney

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.

Bernard de Mandeville

Patience is the best medicine.

John Florio

Let us make a pledge now to help Fiji through this very important next stage of its journey. We can do this by promising to be patient, calm and tolerant and by respecting the views of others, even if we disagree with them.

Josefa Iloilo

In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.

Hans Eysenck

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.

Abdus Salam

Analysts keep having to pick away at the scab that the patient tries to form between himself and the analyst to cover over his wounds. The analyst keeps the surface raw, so that the wound will heal properly.

Janet Malcolm

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.

David Hobson

We need to bridge the gap between the medical libraries and the hospital rooms; take the information out there already, add to it, focus it, harness it - and bring it to the patient who was just diagnosed today.

Bruce Vento

He preacheth patience that never knew pain.

H. G. Bohn

It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form.

Hart Crane

And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust.

Simon Raven

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.

Thomas Edward Brown

I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.

Anthony Hamilton

If I have any message for others, it is to go for help early and not to be a resistant patient.

Patty Duke

You have to find the peace and patience within yourself to be a model and an example to others and not judge.

Judith Light

It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

Elizabeth Taylor

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.

Ralph Fiennes

There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.

Larry Hagman

We need to win something for the fans because they have been patient and very understanding and we owe them.

Jamie Redknapp

When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.

Helen Hayes

Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.

Kristin Scott Thomas

No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.

Star Jones

Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen.

Lara St. John

Thank God my parents had an abundance of patience.

Lexa Doig

If it's a slow race you have to be on your guard. You have to be patient, but I prefer that.

Michael East

You've got to clock the hours and pay your dues. Then eventually, people will come to you. You have to be patient and appreciative.

Elisabeth Rohm

If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.

Frances Farmer

An impatient person plays differently than a more patient person.

Vladimir Kramnik

Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

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.

Willie Aames

I'm a terrible patient, and I find that doctors can be very condescending.

Sherry Stringfield

I'm patient with crossword puzzles and the most impatient golfer.

Brett Hull

I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project.

Jerry Garcia

David Lynch was very good, very patient with us, and the reaction in the United States seems pretty good.

Richard Farnsworth

I really admire people who are extraordinarily tolerant and patient.

Holly Hunter

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

Charlie Chaplin

My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years.

Christina Milian

Nineteen percent of doctors say that they'd be able to give their patients a lethal injection. But they also went on to say that the patient would have to be really, really behind on payments.

Jay Leno