"Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and s... - David Mallet 58 favorites
"Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them? but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, i... 35 favorites
"Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?" - Andrew Greeley 33 favorites
"I think the key is patience. You have to place it in the right spots here." - Annika Sorenstam 31 favorites
"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish." - John Adams 30 favorites
"I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures." - Lao Tzu 27 favorites
"Clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience." - Bible 27 favorites
"Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience." - Hyman Rickover 26 favorites
"MEEKNESS, n. Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while. M is for Moses, Who slew the Egyptian. As sw... - Ambrose Gwinett Bierce 22 favorites
"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished... 20 favorites
"We didn’t have good patience on offense. We didn’t execute well or take advantage of getting it inside. We... - Wayne Cafferty 18 favorites
"LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience." - Ambrose Gwinett Bierce 17 favorites
"Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impa... - Brian Adams 17 favorites
"It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience." - Julius Caesar 17 favorites
"Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work." - Peter Marshall 16 favorites
"Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold ... - Leonardo Da Vinci 16 favorites
"I don’t play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul." - Dick Dale 15 favorites
"Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while." - Ambrose Gwinett Bierce 15 favorites
"The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it." - Arnold Glasgow 14 favorites
"For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of th... - Bible 13 favorites
"It’s a big adjustment for him. You can have the talent, but if you don’t want to work at it, you won’... - Frank Robinson 12 favorites