Quotes On Patience And Determination

#1. Only bad things happen quickly, ... Virtually all the happiness-producing processes in our lives take time, usually a long time: learning new things, changing old behaviors, building satisfying relationships, raising children. This is why patience and determination are among life's primary virtues.

Gordon Livingston

#2. You and your horse. His strength and beauty. Your knowledge and patience and determination and understanding and love. That's what fuses the two of you onto this marvelous partnership that makes you wonder, "What can heaven offer any better then what I have here on earth?".

Monica Dickens

#3. You defend your humanity with patience and determination, by making your voice heard to those who judge you a lesser being for your timeworn clothes, your callused hands, and your sunburned skin.

Hector Tobar

#4. To train the mind, you must exercise the patience and determination it takes to shape that steel.

Dalai Lama XIV

#5. Amongst the qualities a hero should have, I would include determination, loyalty, courage, perseverance, patience, focus, intrepidity and selflessness.

Ricky Martin

#6. A rose dreams of enjoying the company of bees, but none appears. The sun asks:
"Aren't you tired of waiting?"
"Yes," answers the rose, "but if I close my petals, I will wither and die.

Paulo Coelho

#7. When we are bad, we are worse than any primate that I know. And when we are good, we are actually better and more altruistic than any primate that I know.

Frans De Waal

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

Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#9. Sorrow and strife comes to all persons. Mature people expect hardships and setbacks and patiently and determinedly work to accomplish their goals. Immature people lash out in anger and frustration when circumstances conspire to blunt their short-term objectives.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#10. He that can have patience can have what he will.

Benjamin Franklin

#11. The dogged determination and patience of one person to do what is Right and Necessary may not always win the day or even be noticed, but it will tip the balance just a little in the direction of good.

Terry Pratchett

#12. Every worthwhile accomplishment has a price tag attached to it. The question is always whether you are willing to pay the price to attain it - in hard work, sacrifice, patience, faith, and endurance.

John C. Maxwell

#13. Today's patience can transform yesterday's discouragements into tomorrow's discoveries. Today's purposes can turn yesterday's defeats into tomorrow's determination.

William Arthur Ward

#14. Expect wonderful things to happen to you. Get up each morning and say; 'I believe something wonderful is going to happen to me today.'

Brian Tracy

#15. Of all the dogs I've known in my life, I've never seen a better driver.

David Wong

#16. It is only God himself who brings Job joy in the end. And, when all is done, the mystery remains. God stands revealed in his hiddenness, an object of terror, adoration and love. And Job stands before him 'like a man' (38:3; 40:7), trusting and satisfied.

Francis I. Andersen

#17. Vengeance would have us assault an enemy's pride to beat him down. But vengeance hides a dangerous truth, for a humbled foe gains patience, courage, strength, and greater determination.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#18. Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.

Habeeb Akande

#19. Brazen it out! Throw away the scabbard! Grit your teeth, buckle down, and die with your boots on! Or in other words, be determined and resolved until you accomplish the thing you set out to accomplish.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#20. Patience can be bitter but her fruit is always sweet.

Habeeb Akande

#21. For me, typography is a triangular relationship between design idea, typographic elements, and printing technique.

Wolfgang Weingart

#22. Determination, however, can take the place of patience, if earnestly applied.

Cornelia Meigs

#23. Average people and the average community can change the world. You can do it just based on common sense, determination, persistence and patience.

Lois Gibbs

#24. It was the absences that had made her think, not the presences.

Nick Hornby