Quotes About Patience

searching the sky from high above to below the horizon, gradually working around until he reached the right and the rear.

It took hours to turn the clock back 30 seconds.

We're all stuck here for a while, so let's try to work it out.

Suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope.

In later studies, Mischel discovered that the successful children were those who looked away from the temptation or were able to think about other enjoyable activities.

Mischel discovers that the number of seconds you waited to ring the bell in 1970 predicts not only what your parents say about you as a teenager but also the likelihood that you were admitted to a top university. Children who were able to overcome stimulus control and delay gratification for a few extra minutes in 1970 were better able to resist temptation as teenagers, to focus on their studies, and to control themselves when things didn't go the way they wanted.27

The controlled system allows people to think about long-term goals and thereby escape the tyranny of the here-and-now, the automatic triggering of temptation by the sight of tempting objects.

Please, we can get along here. We all can get along. I mean, we're all stuck here for a while. Let's try to work it out.

If you are irritated by every rub, how can you be polished?

Practicing slowly (combined with active listening) is the first concrete practice technique I've

My wife, God bless her, was in labor for thirty-two hours. And I was faithful to her the entire time.

If you couldn't get the outcome you wanted, torture 'em with process.

Sometimes things don't fall into place just because you do a good job.

But in the words of a great philosopher, you can't always get what you want.

sidewalk, waited until the butt cooled, and

Revenge was a dish best eaten cold, but eight years between was arctic.

Good teachers don't approach a child of this age with overzealousness or with destructive conscientiousness. They're not drill-masters in the military or floor managers in a production system. They are specialists in opening small packages. They give the string a tug but do it carefully. They don't yet know what's in the box. They don't know if it's breakable.

An alleyway is a disappointed road, waiting for someone to widen it.

Nell'attesa, il mio odio restava lì, intatto, maturo, qualcosa di pieno e quasi succulento dentro di me, una catasta che attendeva un fiammifero.

We don't seek anyone out. We just wait and hope that people who want the same things come along.

Evil never dies. It merely waits. And it grows stronger in the dark.

She agreed with Mark Twain that golf was a "good walk spoiled.

There's an old military saying...If at first you don't succeed, call in an air strike.

Evil don't die. It just waits.