Quotes About Patience

Today I'm flying low and I'm not saying a word. I'm letting all the voodoos of ambition sleep.

who knows what it dreamed of in the first springs of its life, escaping the cottontail's teeth and everything dangerous else. Who knows when supreme patience took hold, and the wind's wandering among its leaves was enough of motion, of travel.

It wasn't about the bird, it was something about the way stone stays mute and put, whatever goes flashing by.

Outwardly he was calm, reasonable, patient. All his wildness was in his head - such a good place for it!

To enjoy, to question—never to assume, or trample. Thus the great ones (my great ones, who may not be the same as your great ones) have taught me—to observe with passion, to think with patience, to live always care-ingly.

I'm older than I used to be, and therefore I understand things nobody would think of who's young and a hurry.

knowing that the hour of fulfillment is buried in years of patience — yet willing to labor like that on the mortal wheel.

Thus the great ones (my great ones, who may not be the same as your great ones) have taught me - to observe with passion, to think with patience, to live always caringly.

Things take the time they take.

I'm not the river that powerful presence. And I'm not the black oak tree which is patience personified. And I'm not redbird who is a brief life hearted enjoyed. Nor am I mud nor rock nor sand which is holding everything together. No, I am none of these things. Not yet.

Love still as once you loved, deeply and without patience.

Also I wanted to be able to love. And we all know how that one goes, don't we? Slowly

Capacity to Tolerate Boredom and Low Levels of Stimulation" is one of the recommended attributes on a Space Shuttle–era document drafted by the NASA In-House Working Group on Psychiatric and Psychological Selection of Astronauts.

Funny thing happened on the way to the moon: not much," wrote Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan. "Should have brought some crossword puzzles.

The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.

Justine shook her head mournfully. I do not fear to die, she said; that pang is past. God raises my weakness and gives me courage to endure the worst. I leave a sad and bitter world; and if you remember me and think of me as of one unjustly condemned, I am resigned to the fate awaiting me. Learn from me, dear lady, to submit in patience to the will of heaven!

but, oh! the weight of never-ending time—the tedious passage of the still-succeeding hours!

Give me time to be myself, know myself, become a little used to happiness. The rest will be up to me.

Take love easy, as the leaves grow on the trees.

the god does not speak to those who have no time to listen.

Learn from me, dear lady, to submit in patience to the will of heaven!

Sometimes, on the very brink of certainty, I failed; yet still I clung to the hope which the next day or the next hour might realise.

many hard and miserable hours must you endure, until that period shall arrive.

I have consented to return, if we are not destroyed. Thus are my hopes blasted by cowardice and indecision; I come back ignorant and disappointed. It requires more philosophy than I possess, to bear this injustice with patience.