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Quotes About Patience

If something is meant to happen, it will," he pointed out calmly. "And no cat's will is strong enough to stop it from happening.
~ Erin Hunter
We'll be slaughtered if we show ourselves now. We won't leave your kits, Graystripe, I promise we won't, but we've got to wait for the right moment to rescue them.
~ Erin Hunter
I'm just having a bad day, that's all." "It seems like every day's a bad day with you." Shut up! Shut up! "It's leaf-bare," Sunfall began. Duh!
~ Erin Hunter
You wait. I'll be the crankiest elder the Clans have ever seen. Mousefur will seem sweet and gentle next to me!
~ Erin Hunter
Remember who you are and where you come from. I'm telling you these things because I know you're strong enough to listen. A great destiny awaits you and your friends, Gray Wing—but it won't wait forever. . . .
~ Erin Hunter
With this life I give you patience." It was Goosefeather's turn. His gaze was lucid, his voice gentle. "You will need it.
~ Erin Hunter
You will know when the time comes," Cloudstar replied. Could you be any more vague? Firestar thought irritably.
~ Erin Hunter
The greatest hunter is one who knows how to wait.
~ Erin Hunter
Leafpool remembered how he had shown infinite patience with Brightheart after the she-cat had been attacked by the dogs, and needed to learn a whole
~ Erin Hunter
Moonflower's ears twitched. "Not for six moons, you won't! And only if you've learned not to eat poppy seeds by then!
~ Erin Hunter
She'll listen when she's ready to hear
~ Erin Hunter
Not so fast, Tigerclaw!" Spottedleaf placed her paw over Tigerclaw's sharp talon and gently moved it away. "This apprentice needs to keep as still as possible until the cut has healed. We don't want him opening his wound by jumping about trying to please you. Leave him alone.
~ Erin Hunter
There's no herb to heal a broken heart," she murmured. "Only time will do that.
~ Erin Hunter
If a queen started kitting every time some cat upset them, there'd be a lot of unexpected deliveries
~ Erin Hunter
Thunder sat on his haunches and waited, his gaze grazing the moorland ahead of them. Out there was the other cats' camp. Out there was Gray Wing. Out there was hope.
~ Erin Hunter
The mice aren't going to line up and come running into camp, you know.
~ Erin Hunter
He kept checking the position of the sun in the sky, impatient for it to start going down so that he could be sure they were still traveling in the right direction. Where the sun touched the horizon, that was the sun-drown-place. Brambleclaw pushed away his nagging worry that they would have nothing to guide them if clouds came to hide the sun, and he hoped the good weather would hold.
~ Erin Hunter
Why shouldn't I know what's going on?" Jaypaw dug his claws into the grass. "It's not fair if I can't even be curious!" "Curiosity must be tempered with patience," Yellowfang insisted. "Knowledge is wasted on those without the wisdom to know how to use it. And wisdom comes only with time.
~ Erin Hunter
Speed isn't everything," Stonepelt told her. "A warrior who runs ahead of the prey catches less.
~ Erin Hunter
No." Hollypaw sat down, wishing Jaypaw would stop messing around with the herbs and talk to her properly. "He's just been so tired lately, and grumpy. Every time I talk to him he practically nips my whiskers off.
~ Erin Hunter
Halt still, Birkenpfote!
~ Erin Hunter
With this life I give you patience
~ Erin Hunter
Mind you, when Smallear was an apprentice, this tree was probably only a sapling!
~ Erin Hunter
Maybe it's best that he stayed behind, she thought. It's not like he can look for Sol himself.
~ Erin Hunter