Quotes About Patience

It took him (Washington) more than a year to gain control over his own aggressive instincts.

The road to success leads through the valley of humility, and the path is up the ladder of patience and across the wide barren plains of perseverance. As yet, no short cut has ever been discovered.

When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.

Never cut what you can untie

The paper is patient, but the reader is not.

One thing you learn in police work is how to wait. Now you, you hate to wait. You'd make coffee nervous.

Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far." —JODI PICOULT1

The strength of a tree, the old ones say, comes not from growing thicker in the good years when there is water, but from staying alive in the bad, dry times.

we may not be able to meet each other in this world. so let us make a deal. whoever reaches beyond the horizon first, will wait for the other to join. then we can live happily in heaven.

it takes almost a lifetime to learn how to do a thing simply.

Don't spit into heaven... Don't tell the gods your plans; they'll only laugh.

It's the Thanksgiving rule. That's another life tip." "Explain," I said. "Oh, Thanksgiving is this massive meal that usually takes someone about three days to prepare, and then everyone sits down and eats it in about fifteen minutes. The trick is to learn to take your time with Thanksgiving. You have to get everyone to promise that they won't get up for anything for at least an hour. Maybe two.

He is pure air and fire; and the dull elements of earth and water never appear in him, but only in patient stillness while his rider mounts him: he is indeed a horse; and all other jades you may call beasts

A man always hears the first time," Julie said, smiling at us, "but he makes you tell him twice. Especially if he's your husband. Men have their tricks. Don't ever think they don't.

all of our trials are caused by restlessness, the refusal to accept the fact that limitations exist

Ja tu patieš?m grib?tu pamest savu nepaciet?go meiteni, ja m?su mazais m?las st?sts j?noglab? k?d? kambar?t?, ko atcer?sies tikai dažreiz, es tom?r v?l?šos to kambar?ti un došos turp reizi pa reizei gluži k? uz istabi?u k?d? vec? viesn?c? j?ras krast?, kur divi gr?cinieki dar?ja to, ko nedr?kst?ja.

but as his father used to say when he had a few drinks taken, you couldn't expect bloody miracles when you were talking about God.

At 70, I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that "this too, shall pass.

In all controversies, it is better to wait the decisions of time, which are slow and sure, than to take those of synods, which are often hasty and injudicious

A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, like a sponge shall suck up your attention and keep you from brooding over what displeases you.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

She knew she would have to wait for Frecklewish to pass by on patrol; even then, Mapleshade would need the luck of StarClan to get the she-cat alone.

Squirrelpaw, sooner or later you must learn there are times to speak, and times to be silent." Squirrelpaw heaved a noisy sigh. "But it seems like it's always time to be silent." "There, you've got the idea.

But we'll see what we can do. Violetshine, shall we go and talk to Leafstar now?" Violetshine sighed. Tree is such fun, and I like him so much, but there are times I could cheerfully rip his pelt off!