Jeremy Piven Quotes

I still have to work on patience.

As the most generous vine, if it is not pruned, runs out into many superfluous stems, and grows at last weak and fruitless; so dote the best man, if he be not cut short of his desires and pruned with afflictions. If it be painful to bleed, it is worse to wither. Let me be pruned, that I may grow, rather than be cut up to burn.

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

I have my moments when I am down and low. But I gather myself when decisions are to be taken.

My mother taught me the most important principles, to be determined in life, to be disciplined, to be able to understand that there are some things that you can't do and other things you have to do, that you always have to be surrounded by love, that you have to be understanding.

Can't react every time you're insulted. Free people absorb destructive things and refuse to be destroyed

We can do anything, or almost, but how balanced, magnanimous, and modest one has to be to do anything! And also how patient. It is as true in the arts as anywhere else.

I feel like through martial arts I'm able to face my fears head on. It makes me not run away from challenges in life. I'm able to transfer my martial arts training over to other challenges. To be able to conquer your fears is the best feeling in the world.

It is not the events in our life that define our character, but how we deal with them.

Patience means restraining yourself. There are seven emotions, Joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate. If a man doesn't give way to these, he's patient. I'm not as strong as I might be but I'm patient.

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.

Life is full of trials and tribulations. It's dramatic when you don't treat people right when you're in the tribulations, but I know now how to get out of it. You have to make a decision to say 'No more', and then you know what to do when the trials happen.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

I'm not the kind of person to sit and dwell for ages on something that happened. I go through something, I experience it, I try to learn from it, and I move forward.

I would like to be George Clooney diplomatic. I just don't have the wherewithal yet or the inner serenity.

I have learnt to be even more patient.

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.

You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing things with logic. True power is restraint. If words control you that means everyone else can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass.

Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul.

You don't have to be angry and become an ugly person.