Quotes About Patience

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.

If we could, we'd change a lot of things. But the only thing that's going to really change things is money and time. And time might just make it worse, too.

How many times have you wanted to make a chocolate cake from scratch or prove you can make a flakey crust as good as your grandmother's....but you just don't have the time! A snow day is the perfect day to enlist the kids with no time pressure, or worse, dinner guests to impress.

Anger does not solve problems - anger only makes things worse. I go by the old saying, 'Don't make important decisions when you're angry.'

With the kinds of progress we're seeing in Africa, we have people who have a very high expectation, and often people think that, you know, things would happen overnight. But I want people to understand that sometimes it even gets worse before it gets better.

Repeatedly opening the oven - or worse, taking out the turkey to baste it - slows down the momentum of cooking.

For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.

If you're working on a novel, whatever you do, don't say, 'I am almost finished with my novel.' It's worse than chanting Bloody Mary three times in front of a mirror.

Whether it's mending a failing company, fighting corruption, tackling disease, or rebuilding a marriage, the hardest problems defy just-add-water remedies. Indeed, slapping on a Band-Aid when surgery is needed usually just makes things worse.

We have to deal with small injuries that get worse as time goes by.

Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen.

Knee replacement is serious stuff. And it actually could have made me worse.

No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap.

For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball.

If owning stocks is a long-term project for you, following their changes constantly is a very, very bad idea. It's the worst possible thing you can do, because people are so sensitive to short-term losses. If you count your money every day, you'll be miserable.

The worst position you are in is when you are on the medical bed, and you can't get out on that training pitch.

One of the worst things about being an actor, besides people being nice to you and getting free stuff all the time - but really, one of the worst things is not knowing what's coming next. You could shoot a pilot, and they could have you on hold for six months waiting to find out what is going to happen with the show, and you're locked into it.

We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.

But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of money is the man for Nova Scotia. Those may do extremely well.

I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend.

I'm the worst person to ask about how to get noticed. It took me 25 years.

Waitressing - by far the worst job ever created.