• "Because I'm the author of my screenplays I know what I'm looking for. It's true that I can be stubborn in demanding that I get what I want, but it's also a question of working with patience and love." - Michael Haneke Tweet
• "As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience." - Ridley Pearson Tweet
• "It is strange that the years teach us patience that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting." - Elizabeth Taylor Tweet
• "I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves." - Major Taylor Tweet
• "Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace." - May Sarton Tweet
• "I'm not really easy to live with! There needs to be unlimited patience and unconditional love. Men I've known before loved my independent spirit and were proud of my success, to the point that they'd become jealous of the time I devote to my career." - Milla Jovovich Tweet
• "My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out." - Frances O'Grady Tweet
• "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." - Thomas Aquinas Tweet
• "If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything." - Ilie Nastase Tweet
• "Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while." - Ambrose Bierce Tweet