As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience. Ridley Pearson on patience
Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required. Yiannis Stournaras on patience
If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything. Ilie Nastase on patience
So it's been a slow process and it's taken some patience. That's why patients are called patients I think - patience is required. Bowie Kuhn on patience
I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience. Tyrone Power on patience
If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under. Ronald Reagan on patriotism
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. Albert Einstein on patriotism
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. John F. Kennedy on patriotism
Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about. Mark Twain on patriotism
I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose. John F. Kennedy on patriotism
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. Oscar Wilde on patriotism
You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it. Malcolm X on patriotism
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. George Bernard Shaw on patriotism
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. Voltaire on patriotism
We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights that our destinies are bound together that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense. Barack Obama on patriotism
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else. Clarence Darrow on patriotism
One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. Aldous Huxley on patriotism
Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars. Dale Carnegie on patriotism
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him? Blaise Pascal on patriotism
The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain. George McGovern on patriotism