It's not that I'm so smart it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.

Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.

We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Know your own happiness. Want for nothing but patience - or give it a more fascinating name: Call it hope.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Humility is attentive patience.

For anything worth having one must pay the price, and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

Patience is all the strength that man needs.

Genius is eternal patience.

It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted.

Patience is the support of weakness, impatience the ruin of strength.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments, but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

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

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.

Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

All commend patience but none can endure to suffer.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss, volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

The greatest prayer is patience

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Patience n. A minor form of dispair disguised as a virtue.

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.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

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.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones, and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens, unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.

Patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet.

Abused patience turns to fury.

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

All through my life, I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my strength has been tested. Now my patience and endurance are being tested.

The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.

Without patience, we will learn less in life. We will see less. We will feel less. We will hear less. Ironically, rush and more usually mean less.

To lose patience is to lose the battle.

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

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, if he is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared that I, who am not patient, am patient.

Have faith and patience. Then I will be always with you wherever you are.

If patience is worth anything it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Patience. Doctors need more patience, not patients.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

And I love that even in the toughest moments when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom and courage and grace.

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

I have not the smarts or patience for political office.

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.

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing patience and wisdom.

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.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

Let nothing disturb thee, Let nothing dismay thee, All thing pass, God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing: God alone suffices.

Endurance is the crowning quality And patience all the passion of great hearts.

No I will be the pattern of all patience, I will say nothing.

One can imbibe those lessons only to the extent of one's patience and intelligent skill.

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

Where there is charity and wisdom there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Study the lives of our great women who were models of patience, fortitude, compassion and sacrifice. I desire that you should take up the reins of leadership and bring peace and prosperity to the nation by leading ideal lives.