Quotes About Patience

We must look a long time before we can see

As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism never fails.

Time, like a preacher in the days of the Puritans, turned the hour-glass on his high pulpit, the church belfry.

I trained well this week but I think it will take some time until I recover my best rhythm in this specialty.

The gods give to mortals not everything at the same time.

In the hardware world, you've got to take your time because your iteration cycles are much more deliberate.

Attempt to teach the young but little at a time; this will be easier to impart, easier to receive, and surer to be retained.

There is no getting around these essential ingredients: determination, effort and time. These are the real secrets to happiness.

It takes a long time for the gleam in the eye to turn into something solid.

If at first you don't succeed, sure, try again... but if you keep not succeeding, you should probably concentrate on something (or someone) else worthwhile & quit wasting your time.

Earth has waited for them, All the time of their growth Fretting for their decay: Now she has them at last.

The thing I always tell my audiences all the time is that I'm just two steps ahead of you on a good day. And I might be two steps behind you on a bad day.

Always take out your watch when a child asks you the time.

That's what I am; I'm a drip. You still get hydrated, you still get your nutrients, just a little at a damn time.

It is in bed that we learn to bear the inevitable. We are learning this all the time while we lie with our face turned to the wall thinking we are doing nothing.

Time will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead.

I've wanted to be with you since the first time you turned me down. I've just been waiting for you to come around.

Third time pays for all

But, come to think of it, there was no need to wait. Time travelers don't have to wait for anybody.

if the way ahead is not clear, time is often the best editor of one's intentions.

only when we have a respect for time will we have learned something of the art of living.

Something that I tell myself every morning when I wake up is like: "Think it over, take the time to think it over." I don't like spontaneity, there you go. I'm wary of it.

It was as though we were a picture, trapped in time: this had been happening for hundreds of years, people sitting in a room, waiting for dinner, and listening to the blues.

The touch of time does more than the club of Hercules.