Patience Quotes

I started 'SNL,' and I became the one who did impressions. I did that, but then I wanted to get an original character on, and that took a long time to get one on that stuck. And then I got Vinny Vedecci on - 'Oh great' - and then it took a couple more seasons to get Greg the Alien on. You have to have some patience.

Bill Hader

American Businessman

I had a certain level of patience, but sometimes weathering the storm is a patient process. Every storm don't pass fast. Every storm, it can be passing, but it can be getting stronger and stronger or it could be coming down hard.

Fabolous

My life was forever changed by people who took the time and had the patience to learn my story and to share theirs with me. They forsook judgment and came to me with kindness and empathy and the impact of that decision was huge.

Megan Phelps-Roper

Political activist

For believers, both privilege and privation are a trial, and both demand responses: one demands service, and the other demands patience. The greatest privilege is to live well in flourishing lands; the greatest privation is to live in the midst of war, especially civil war.

Hamza Yusuf

American Islamic scholar

I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.

Bob Woodward

American journalist

When I returned from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1972, my father was running a forging business with a turnover of Rs 3.5 crore. But I had no patience and wanted to grow the business via exports.

Baba Kalyani

Managing Director of Bharat Forge

Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it. Obviously, it's a challenge - but if you're not taking the bull by the horns, I have no patience for you. You're just taking up space.

Melissa Rosenberg

American television writer

When you have a dream that you can't let go of, trust your instincts and pursue it. But remember: Real dreams take work, They take patience, and sometimes they require you to dig down very deep. Be sure you're willing to do that.

Harvey Mackay

American businessman

Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.

Ceelo Green

American singer-songwriter

When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.

Beverly Cleary

American writer

If you don't have patience in this profession, you almost always end up getting bent out of shape expecting quick results.

Parineeti Chopra

Indian actress

For correct writing, the cultivation of patience and mental accuracy is essential. Throughout the young author's period of apprenticeship, he must keep reliable dictionaries and textbooks at his elbow; eschewing as far as possible that hasty extemporaneous manner of writing which is the privilege of more advanced students.

H. P. Lovecraft

American writer

As wonderful as they were, my parents didn't teach me anything about self-discipline, concentration, patience, or focus. If I hadn't had a family myself, I probably never would've done anything. Marriage taught me responsibility.

Dick Van Dyke

American actor

When you have a president who mocks our inclusivity, who demonizes our diversity... you can't ask for patience.

Kevin De Leon

Member of the Los Angeles City Council

You can't make money on borrowed knowledge. If following Rakesh Jhunjhunwala was all it took to make money, a lot more people would be rich. It requires patience and you learn from mistakes.

Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

Indian business magnate

We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.

Muammar Al-Gaddafi

Libyan politician

The biggest advice I can give loved ones who are supporting someone navigating a newly diagnosed mental illness is patience, patience, and patience.

Madchen Amick

American actress

Football has no patience.

Marquinhos

Brazilian soccer player

America is a great country. It has a lot of work to do. The bottom line is it's easy to talk; it's easy to have the media pick up on something, and it's hard to have the patience to put something in place you can build on that will make sure each citizen has their equal rights.

Jim Brown

American actor

He preacheth patience that never knew pain.

Henry George Bohn

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