When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.
Martin LutherBeing at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.
Eckhart TolleTo keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
Katharine HepburnA voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
Margaret AtwoodTo build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
Winston ChurchillAdopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo EmersonGod is patient with us to become the God’s children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.
Desmond TutuThe one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.
Kevin HartAt one time in my life, from the time I was seven until I was about 13, I didn’t speak. I only spoke to my brother. The reason I didn’t speak: I had been molested, and I told the name of the molester to my brother who told it to the family.
Maya AngelouHow many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.
Elbert HubbardSometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
Dalai LamaIt is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.
Stephen HawkingHe who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.
Lao TzuWe never repent of having eaten too little.
Thomas JeffersonHe who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.
BuddhaWe could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
Helen KellerIf one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.
EpictetusReacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.
Ruth Bader GinsburgI don’t think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It’s to do with how much anger is in you.
Amy WinehouseWhen anger rises, think of the consequences.
ConfuciusHe who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
Leonardo da VinciDo not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
William Makepeace ThackerayIn the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
VoltaireYou do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
Franz KafkaThe human body is strange and flawed and unpredictable. The human body has many secrets, and it does not divulge them to anyone, except those who have learned to wait.
Paul AusterGenius is patience.
Isaac NewtonAfter one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one’s person.
Nelson MandelaTo be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.
PlatoWishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
AristotleHe that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
Benjamin FranklinIt is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.
Winston ChurchillMy experience with power, you can maintain it, or you get it taken from you. You get you some newfound power and go crazy, and it get taken from you quick.
Nipsey HussleNothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Thomas JeffersonThough silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
Marcus Tullius CiceroUse, do not abuse… neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
VoltaireWhen the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation – which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased – only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiI read to my kid, but I can’t stand reading.
Adam SandlerAll great achievements require time.
Maya AngelouYou hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.
Samuel JohnsonObstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
Arthur SchopenhauerIt is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark TwainIf you’re holding out for universal popularity, I’m afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.
J. K. RowlingThe only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it… I can resist everything but temptation.
Oscar Wilde‚Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.
William ShakespeareSilence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.
Thomas CarlyleI never smoke to excess – that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.
Mark TwainIt is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.
Franz KafkaThe time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
Abraham LincolnAnyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
VoltaireFortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
Francis BaconYou may never get to that perfect world that you’re waiting for where everything’s going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.
Joel OsteenHis talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
Ernest HemingwayAfter silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous HuxleyIf patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.
Mahatma GandhiYou don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.
Joyce MeyerI hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse. So for me, it’s a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.
Beyonce KnowlesIt is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.
Vivienne WestwoodHeat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
William ShakespeareMeditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiI shouldn’t be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.
Adam Sandler