- “Patience is the art of hoping.” – Luc De Vauvanargues
- “Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.” – Mac McCleary
- “Patience is the ability to count down before you blast off.” – Unknown
- “Beware the fury of a patient man.” – John Dryden, Absolam and Achitophel, 1680
- “Patience: A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.” – Ambrose Bierce
- “You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.” – Franklin P. Jones
- “Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.” – George-Louis de Buffon
- “Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.” – John Quincy Adams
- “Patience is the companion of wisdom.” – St. Augustine
- “Patience is also a form of action.” – Auguste Rodin
- “If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?” – Sydney J. Harris
- “There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen.” – Alexandre Dumas
- “Life is too short to hold a grudge, also too long.” – Robert Brault
- “He who angers you conquers you.” – Elizabeth Kenny
- “For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” – Unknown
- “Anger is one letter short of danger.” – Unknown
- “Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge.” – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
- “People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.” – Will Rogers
- “Never write a letter while you are angry.” – Chinese Proverb
- “Get mad, then get over it.” – Colin Powell
- “The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn’t angry enough.” – Bede Jarrett
- “Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.” – Phyllis Diller, Phyllis Diller’s Housekeeping Hints, 1966
- “In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.” – Mark Twain
- “Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.” – Malachy McCourt
- “Take no revenge that you have not pondered beneath a starry sky, or on a canyon overlook, or to the lapping of waves and the mewing of a distant gull.” – Robert Brault
- “If you kick a stone in anger, you’ll hurt your own foot.” – Korean Proverb
- “Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.” – Chinese Proverb
- “Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.” – Albert Einstein
- “No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.” – George Jean Nathan
- “Anger is short-lived madness.” – Horace
- “Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.” – George Eliot
- “Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.” – Lyman Abbott
- “Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.” – Robert G. Ingersoll
- “Sometimes when I’m angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn’t give me the right to be cruel.” – Unknown
- “Next time you’re mad, try dancing out your anger.” – Sweetpea Tyler
- “Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.” – Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
- “Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.” – James Fallows
- “At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled.” – Marshall B. Rosenberg
- “Anger and folly walk cheek by jole.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.” – Lemony Snicket
- “I don’t have to attend every argument I’m invited to.” – Unknown
- “Can anger survive without his hypocrisy?” – Jareb Teague
- “Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.” – Buddha
- “Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.” – Seneca
- “Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before – it takes something from him.” – Louis L’Armour
- “Never strike your wife – even with a flower.” – Hindu Proverb
- “Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.” – Ambrose Bierce
- “When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.” – Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson, 1894
- “Anger is a bad counselor.” – French Proverb
- “Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, and eventually poisonous. I have no desire to make my own toxins.” – Neil Kinnock
- “The worst-tempered people I’ve ever met were people who knew they were wrong.” – Wilson Mizner
- “To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.” – William H. Walton
- “The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.” – Jacqueline Schiff
- “When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.” – Elbert Hubbard
- “Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.” – Marcus Antonius
- “If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.” – Henny Youngman
- “Lose an hour in the morning, and you will be all day hunting for it.” – Richard Whately
- “The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.” – Jean Kerr, Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, 1957
- “I’d like mornings better if they started later.” – Unknown
- “For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?” – Thornton Wilder
- “Through the blackest night, morning gently tiptoes, feeling its way to dawn.” – Robert Brault
- “Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.” – Elbert Hubbard
- “The older generation thought nothing of getting up at five every morning – and the younger generation doesn’t think much of it either.” – John J. Welsh
- “If people were meant to pop out of bed, we’d all sleep in toasters.” – Unknown
- “Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.” – Jean Giraudoux
- “The sun is but a morning star.” – Henry David Thoreau, Walden
- “There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.” – Unknown
- “There is no hope for a civilization which starts each day to the sound of an alarm clock.” – Unknown
- “I can see the orange haze on the horizon as the morning exhales a yawn, and seems to be ready to rise.” – Jeb Dickerson
- “I have a “carpe diem” mug and, truthfully, at six in the morning the words do not make me want to seize the day. They make me want to slap a dead poet.” – Joanne Sherman
- “Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.” – Josh Billings
- “The plans that I made when horizontal are working out now that I’m vertical.” – Betsy Cañas Garmon
- “Luxury is an ancient notion. There was once a Chinese mandarin who had himself wakened three times every morning simply for the pleasure of being told it was not yet time to get up.” – Argosy
- “One key to success is to have lunch at the time of day most people have breakfast.” – Robert Brault
- “The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “I’ll tell you how the sun rose a ribbon at a time.” – Emily Dickinson
- “To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.” – Ambrose Bierce
- “No human being believes that any other human being has a right to be in bed when he himself is up.” – Robert Lynd
- “Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.” – William Feather
- “Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience – unless they are still up.” – Ellen Goodman
- “I don’t think jogging is healthy, especially morning jogging. If morning joggers knew how tempting they looked to morning motorists, they would stay home and do sit-ups.” – Rita Rudner
- “Some people develop a wish bone where their back bone should be.” – Unknown
- “Some people not only expect opportunity to knock, they expect it to beat down the door.” – Unknown
- “Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.” – Ambrose Bierce
- “Start off every day with a smile and get it over with.” – W. C. Fields
- “Success comes in cans, failure in can’ts.” – Unknown
- “Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.” – Earl Nightingale
- “The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.” – Arthur C. Clarke
- “The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office.” – Robert Frost
- “The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.” – Al Neuharth
- “The difference between an optimist and a pessimist is that an optimist thinks this is the best possible world. A pessimist fears that this is true.” – Unknown
- “There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again.” – Elizabeth Lawrence
- “Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.” – John Betjeman
- “Sweet childish days, that were as long
As twenty days are now.” – William Wordsworth, “To a Butterfly”
- “Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth – two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.” – Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary, 1911
- “We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.” – George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860
- “Childhood is the most beautiful of all life’s seasons.” – Unknown
- “Childhood is a promise that is never kept.” – Ken Hill
- “Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.” – Katherine Anne Porter
- “There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.” – Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory
- “When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn’t the old home you missed but your childhood.” – Sam Ewing
- “In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in.” – Robert Brault
- “The greatest poem ever known
Is one all poets have outgrown:
The poetry, innate, untold,
Of being only four years old.” – Christopher Morley, To a Child
- “If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.” – Tom Stoppard
- “I’d give all wealth that years have piled,
The slow result of Life’s decay,
To be once more a little child
For one bright summer day.” – Lewis Carroll, “Solitude”
- “It is never too late to have a happy childhood.” – Tom Robbins
- “What we remember from childhood we remember forever – permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.” – Cynthia Ozick
- “The childhood shows the man
As morning shows the day.” – John Milton, Paradise Regained
- “Childhood is a short season.” – Helen Hayes
- “He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.” – Herbert Gold
- “Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath.” – Unknown
- “The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.” – Ellen Glasgow
- “Old age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood chews hours and swallows minutes.” – Malcolm de Chazal