Quotes About Patience

If impatience would help, Lord Komawara, I would become impatient.

So the first thing that I thought about was, 'How is this car going to handle?' But then after I'd been driving with it and practicing with it and I accomplished that, then I just kind of sat back.

Worry all you want," said Master Satele. "Unless there's something you can do about it, I don't see what good it will do.

a person I have come to accept in the way of things here, which, if they can't be changed, they must be endured.

Trouble always comes and no use wishing it didn't. Thing is, to get through it – and out the other side. If there is another side.

Blink and you miss a sprint. The 10,000 meters is lap after lap of waiting. Theatrically, the mile is just the right length - beginning, middle, end: a story unfolding.

Der Klügere gibt nie nach. Er wartet nur auf den passenden Moment, um zuzuschlagen.

Welchen Sinn hatte es überhaupt, durch das Leben zu hetzen, wenn am Ende niemand auf einen wartete?

Someone who butts in when you're talking and smugly provides the ending herself. Indeed anyone who butts in, be they child or adult, is most infuriating.

What was Kenzo's reaction to all this criticism? His approach was to stay completely silent. He made no move whatsoever to respond to any of it. And, of course, water eventually wins over fire. One by one, the opponents ran out of heat, their voices faded, their steps faltered and finally, with a wry smile and a shoulder shrug, they were forced to admit defeat.

The purpose of Life is a simple task which is simply to worship god, however the journey of life is hard on this earth. The individuals who completes this simple goal with dignity, patience and love is a true winner.

I have very little faith that I'll ever find someone. I've had some bad luck and I've made some bad choices - not in men, but in how I've chosen to deal with relationships.

Where does our need to accelerate time come from? From impatience to arrive in the near future into which we have projected our trifling desires. Our need to slow time down would surely be natural. But why this strong desire to speed things up? Why are we always in a hurry to reach the future?

She sat still, I thought, and yet she traveled. And when one stitches, the mind travels, not the way men do, with ax and oxen through the wilderness, but surely our traveling counted too, as motion. And I thought of the patience of the stitches. Writing a book, I thought, which men often do, but women only rarely, has the posture of sewing. One hand leads, and the other hand helps. And books, like quilts, are made, one word at a time, one stitch at a time.

Real improvement is of slow growth only.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

He is a fool who cannot be angry; but he is a wise man who will not.

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

Time heals what reason cannot.

Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.

Delay not swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one.

If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you don't wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes.