Owen Feltham Quotes

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Sooner or later you've heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love.

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

I'm patient.

I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.

Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

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.

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

Patience is the best medicine.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

We befriend whoever befriends us, and we are hostile to those hostile to us.

I wish I had more patience.

I still have to work on patience.

I try to have as much patience as possible.

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.

Patience, increasing patience

Patience is not just about waiting for something... it's about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

Your passion must be tempered with patience. Maybe long-suffering patience would be a better word.

Christ willed to suffer and be despised and do you dare complain of the same? Christ had adversaries and backbiters; and do you wish to have all men your friends and benefactors? When shall your patience attain her crown if no adversity befalls you? If you are willing to suffer naught that is against you, how will you be the friend of Christ?

For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.

Magnanimity consists in enduring tactlessness with mildness.

Love has the patience to endure the fault it sees but cannot cure.

I've always been slow but I'm even slower now. I'm more into the waiting, or I guess I'm more patient about the waiting.

To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.