John Lewis Quotes

My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.

When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, 'I don't believe they meant to hurt me.' 'Maybe they're having a bad day or don't feel well.' 'They probably don't even realize how they sound.'

Take the high road. No matter how much strife, and consternation, frustration and anger you might be confronted with - don't go to that level.

I try to be a nice person, but it's difficult sometimes.

If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day.

To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude.

Never give up on anybody.

Never lose the childlike wonder. Show gratitude... Don't complain; just work harder... Never give up.

Keep your head up and be patient.

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.

You have perspective when little people come into your life. You take the best things you have and let them overshadow your disappointment.

The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.

My parents taught me to never give up and to always believe that my future could be whatever I dreamt it to be.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

Truth that is not undergirded by love makes the truth obnoxious and the possessor of it repulsive.

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

The only thing I pray for is the strength to go out without complaining.

I lost my tolerance for a lot of things I probably should have tolerated.

Be patient. Patience is the mother of all virtues.

It takes strength to be kind; it's not a weakness.