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Quotes About Patience

Although the world proved not yet ready for the brotherhood of baseball, that would be only a matter of time, baseball magnates believed.
~ John Thorn
Why can't we have patience and expect good things to take time?
~ John Wooden
I had pestered [Phil Wood] for a long time. He finally agreed to do it. And I was excited and nervous and he couldn't have been nicer or more supportive from the minute I got to his house.
~ Jon Gordon
But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons.
~ Jonathan Coe
There's never any percentage in being ahead of your time.
~ Jonathan Lethem
I will wait for Cleopatra, for I know my time must come. And I'm getting ready for wherever she'll be at-tra, cause I'm getting stronger now and not so dumb.
~ Jonathan Richman
No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.
~ Jonathan Swift
A journey takes time. And the lessons we learn best, they come from the journey, not the destination.
~ Jordan Dane
Peace needs and takes time, it needs and takes caution, it needs and takes patience after 30 years of terrorism and violence.
~ Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
The time never lies heavy upon him; it is impossible for him to be alone.
~ Joseph Addison
Things may move slow in the academic world, but I continue to move at a pace relative to the urgency of the moment, looking forward to the time when the academic world can catch up.
~ Joseph Curiale
I don't believe in miracles because it's been a long time since we've had any.
~ Joseph Heller
Young widows still bide their time.
~ Josh Billings
We found ourselves wanting to hurry time along, which was not in the long run good for our health. Everybody was trapped in this contradiction but nobody ever dared to articulate it.
~ Joshua Ferris
If you can manage to be thankful in every situation, really believing that God is working everything out for your good, you will end up with the victory every single time.
~ Joyce Meyer
Resist the need to be 'right' all the time or to always have the last word.
~ Joyce Meyer
I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.
~ Judith Guest
My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky.
~ Judith Perelman Rossner
Time cures one of everything-even of living.
~ Jules de Goncourt
I have trouble with toast. Toast is very difficult. You have to watch it all the time or it burns up.
~ Julia Child
Never give up on a dream because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.
~ Earl Nightingale
The years teach much the days never know.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Things take the time they take.Don't worry.How many roads did St. Augustine follow before he became St. Augustine?
~ Mary Oliver
Time takes it all in the end...
~ Stephen King, A Good Marriage