Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age.

A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

The suffering of either sex -- of the male who is unable, because of the way in which he was reared, to take the strong initiating or patriarchal role that is still demanded of him, or of the female who has been given too much freedom of movement as a child to stay placidly within the house as an adult -- this suffering, this discrepancy, this sense of failure in an enjoined role, is the point of leverage for social change.

Have patience awhile slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

Patch grief with proverbs.

The human body is a peculiar device, pat it on the back and the head swells.

You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.

Yes! The sad pathetic mutiny-inducing puppy face worked!

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

For there was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently.

You cannot travel on the path until you become the path itself.

You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.

With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.

The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.

A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.

The mind is always the patsy of the heart.

So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

DIPLOMACY, n. The patriotic art of lying for one's country.

All paths lead nowhere, follow the path with heart.

To laugh often and much to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others to leave the world a little better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.

Nobody's happy about it,-Pat Patterson

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

After my recent brush with voicelessness, I thought I'd share with you a few thoughts about speech. Don't take it lightly my friends. If music is the pathway to the heart as Voltaire suggested, then speech is the pathway to other people. Live in silence and you live alone.

There once was a Bald Man who sat down after work on a hot summer's day. A Fly came up and kept buzzing about his bald pate, and stinging him from time to time. The Man aimed a blow at his little enemy, but - whack - his palm come on his own head instead; again the Fly tormented him, but this time the Man was wiser and said: ''YOU WILL ONLY INJURE YOURSELF IF YOU TAKE NOTICE OF DISPICABLE ENEMIES.''

Patience is the key to contentment.

We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

Look you, Doubloon, your zodiac here is the life of man in one round chapter. To begin: there's Aries, or the Ram -- lecherous dog, he begets us; then, Taurus, or the Bull -- he bumps us the first thing; then Gemini, or the Twins -- that is, Virtue and Vice; we try to reach Virtue, when lo! comes Cancer the Crab, and drags us back; and here, going from Virtue, Leo, a roaring Lion, lies in the path -- he gives a few fierce bites and surly dabs with his paw; we escape, and hail Virgo, the virgin! that's our first love; we marry and think to be happy for aye, when pop comes Libra, or the Scales -- happiness weighed and found wanting; and while we are very sad about that, Lord! how we suddenly jump, as Scorpio, or the Scorpion, stings us in rear; we are curing the wound, when come the arrows all round; Sagittarius, or the Archer, is amusing himself. As we pluck out the shafts, stand aside! here's the battering-ram, Capricornus, or the Goat; full tilt, he comes rushing, and headlong we are tossed; when Aquarius, or the Waterbearer, pours out his whole deluge and drowns us; and, to wind up, with Pisces, or the Fishes, we sleep.

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

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.

As we become curators of our own contentment on the Simple Abundance path... we learn to savor the small with a grateful heart.

This is patently absurd but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.

Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage.

There's beauty all around our paths, if but our watchful eyes can trace it midst familiar things, and through their lowly guise.

Who can be patient in extremes? [Henry Vi]

...a special kind of love that's always there when you need it to comfort and inspire, yet lets you go your own path. A sharing heart filled with patience and forgiveness, that takes your side even when wrong. Nothing can take its place.

If you want to succeed,you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

The path is smooth that leadeth on to danger.

I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience -- and laughter.

Technological progress is like an ax in the hands of a pathological criminal.