Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.

We read too much Shakespeare at school and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits was promised and has earned.

I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.

All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently link by link with sweat and blood and tears.

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

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.

Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear.

Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are you're going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.

People ask me a lot about the values I got from playing for the Cubs for so many years. The value I got out of it was patience. A lot of people these days are not very patient.

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared that I who am not patient am patient.

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.

Beware the fury of a patient man.

Bear patiently with a rival.

If I have done the public any service it is due to my patient thought.

I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.