Patient Quotes

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
Robert H. Schuller

Time, Important, Decision

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
Margaret Thatcher

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

Joy, Brave, Learn

I'm patient.
Michael Jordan

A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
Lana Turner

Gentleman, Simply, Wolf

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
Phillips Brooks

Life, Short, Malicious

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Good, Bad, Test

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
Edith Sitwell

Stupidity, Proud

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Voltaire

Nature, Art, While

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.
Barack Obama

Time, Equality, Sorry

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.
Robert A. Heinlein

Food, Science, Him

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Wise, Angry, Sick

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.
Heraclitus

Good, Character, Effort

I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
Margaret Thatcher

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.
Liberty Hyde Bailey

Good, Someone, Effort

Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Love, Strength, Silence

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
Bertrand Russell

Work, Wish, Sense

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.
Sigmund Freud

Freedom, Ego, Give

I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.
Jesse Jackson

God, Best, Perfect

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
Ambrose Bierce

Best, Situation, Guess

We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.
Sigmund Freud

Life, Long, Real

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
Andre Gide

Peace, Men, Passion

I'm not the most patient of people.
Kobe Bryant

Caring for an Alzheimer's patient is a situation that can utterly consume the lives and well-being of the people giving care, just as the disorder consumes its victims.
Leeza Gibbons

Care, Giving, Caring

There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.
Chuck Tanner

Patience, Important, Secret

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
William Osler

Good, Great, Disease

Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient.
Jennifer Aniston

Mother, Friend, Sister

It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.
William Osler

Important, Disease

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.
Sivananda

Time, Good, Failures

The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
Thomas Fuller

Makes, Doctor, Likely

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