Michael Douglas Quotes

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.

Patience is a virtue; virtue is a grace.

In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.

As a kid, I often figured it was good to be patient to a fault.

I think we can all use a little more patience. I get a little impatient sometimes and I wish I didn't. I really need to be more patient.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

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

Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.

A prince must, above all things, accustom himself to moderate his desires. For as he has the power of gratifying them, if he once gives way to them, he will run to the greatest excess, and, by destroying his subjects, will at last complete his own ruin. In order to form himself to this moderation, nothing is more proper, than to accustom himself to patience. This is the most necessary of all virtues for those, who are to command. A man must be patient to become master of himself and others.

There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.

I wish I had more patience.

I have learned to be patient.

I learned a lot about humility and patience, keeping my mouth shut.

Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.

The most important lesson I've learned in this business is how to say no. I have said no to a lot of temptations, and I am glad I did.

Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.

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

There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

The ability to delay gratification has implications not only for a person's life, but also for a community, for a people, for a country.

There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.