I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.

Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.

With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

When I was 20, I thought I was 30 - but I was so far from it. When you're young, you want everything to happen now. As you mature, you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.

It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.