In a world where people are hungry for quick fixes and sound bites, for instant gratification, there's no patience for the long, slow rebuilding process: implementing after-school programs, hiring more community workers to act as mentors, adding more job training programs in marginalized areas.

- Dan Hill

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

- Julius Caesar

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

- Victor Hugo

No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.

- Star Jones

Patience is key. You can't get selfish, and that's the number one thing I've learned at WWE. The world continues to go round, and I just knew - given the right opportunity and the right moment - that the world would know I was good, but now the world knows that I'm great.

- Sasha Banks

True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep.

- Leon Jouhaux

I always tell up-and-coming DJs you have to really love what you do and find that interest to drive you. It requires so much attention to detail, and it takes up a lot of your time. You hear a song, and there are so many little pieces that make that song work. It requires a lot of patience, diligence and resilience.

- Steve Aoki

This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

- Wilkie Collins

The notion that patience is a virtue is something you don't fully appreciate until you're a parent. You need endless patience with little ones.

- Deirdre O'Kane

Business is a sprint until you find an opportunity, then it's the patience of a marathon runner.

- Robert Herjavec