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
As a young boy, I read ‘Cheaper by the Dozen’ and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience.
Ridley Pearson
Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.
Yiannis Stournaras
If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
Ilie Nastase
So it’s been a slow process and it’s taken some patience. That’s why patients are called patients I think – patience is required.
Bowie Kuhn
I’ve done an awful lot of stuff that’s a monument to public patience.
Tyrone Power
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
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.
George Tenet
I’ve learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.
Randy Travis
I haven’t got a lot of patience.
Jeffrey Katzenberg
It’s amazing. My kids have grown me in ways I never knew possible. The patience I’ve received and the love I get from them is just amazing.
Candace Cameron Bure
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
Patience is sorrow’s salve.
Charles Churchill
You know, writing is really difficult, and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don’t know if I have that. I admire it in others, so much, and I envy it.
Adam Scott
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.
Paulina Porizkova