Quotes About Patience

All I am certain of right now is that I don't want to go anywhere, and that's not bad for someone who always used to run.

Glac bóg an saol agus glacfaidh an saol bóg thú. (Take life fine and easy and life will be fine and easy on you.) Tailor Buckley 'Tim' (1863-1945)

Men stayed in bed for hours on end, or hung around in stairwells and courtyards. "Nothing is urgent anymore; they have forgotten how to hurry.

We look back and we look ahead, but we live in the time we are allowed.

A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

changing horses doesn't mean the ride'll get any better!

For some of us love comes into the room, kicks her shoes off, finds the most comfortable sofa, and lies down, rests, has no intention of going anywhere. For others love walks in smoking a cigarette, checking her watch every two seconds, jittery, with one hand on the doorknob, heart rate up, always in sprinter's position, ready to run.

To chase a dog is merely to teach it to run away.

She submitted patiently to all the handling of Hynes, as if she knew there were no use making any protest – but each day, just before four o'clock in the afternoon, something waked in her, and the training of a lifetime called her. She would tear against the wires of her pen or dash at the fence and try to leap it. She had not forgotten.

That's what we do in regard to our sons," Leonard sighed. "We hold our breath.

If you wait for a better time to create, better than this very moment, if you wait until you feel settled, divinely inspired, perfectly centered, unburdened of your usual worries, or free of your own skin, forget about it. You will still be waiting tomorrow and the next day, wondering why you never managed to begin, wondering

One study calculated that people spend 3,680 hours in their lifetime looking for lost items, which works out to 150 twenty-four-hour days.

Behold, the hand of the Mighty One of Jacob, what it accomplishes while we are silent, suffer, and pray. Is not the word of Moses true: "You will be silent and the Lord will fight for you"?

We may only imagine the scene, the old man, the rough ex–sea captain who had so loved little Wilberforce as a boy, and who had entertained such hopes for him, only to see them dashed.

the real struggle that perhaps lies ahead must simply be to suffer faithfully.

But most extraordinary—and evidence to Mrs. Wilberforce of a "Great Change" indeed, though one she certainly welcomed—was a marked absence of that irritability and harsh temper he had sometimes displayed, especially toward her.

He who seeks revenge should first dig two graves.

The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up, there's no law against whacking them around a little.

Was that really all there was to love? Darkness undone, a hand on your forehead. In the meantime all you could do was wait--tired, alone, the minutes as long or short as a lifetime--for the face in your dream to appear.

waiting too long to release can lead to the ultimate waste: making something that nobody wants.

If you're commuting to work, you don't give up because there's a detour in the road or you made a wrong turn. You remain thoroughly focused on getting to your destination.

Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without it for a week.

Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust on him should try to get on without it for a week.

Pain is temporary. It may last for a minute, or an hour or a day, or even a year. But eventually, it will subside. And something else take its place. If I quit, however, it will last forever.