I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.

So it's been a slow process and it's taken some patience. That's why patients are called patients I think - patience is required.

If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence that is everything.

Difficult years lie ahead patience is required.

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.

Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.

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

As I pass it I feel as if I saw a dear old mother sweet in her weakness trembling at the approach of her dissolution but not appealing to me against the inevitable rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience and pointing to a hopeful future.

I will exercise patience and will provide all facts to the general public.

The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience the other tells you if you don't resent them you are not fit to live.