Quotes About Patience

I wondered if I'd ever get my life back.

I take it," the lawyer remarked musingly, "patience isn't one of your virtues." "I didn't know," she said, "that patience WAS a virtue.

What I could really use is an older man. A mentor. One who could tell me how things fit together. He would have asked me to do chores that I felt were meaningless. I would have been impatient and protested, but done them nonetheless. And eventually, after several months of hard labour, I would have realised that there was a deeper meaning behind it all, and that the master had a cunning plan all the time.

Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation's compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.

I think one of the real tests of a stable marriage is being married to a man who worships at the shrine of burnt food -- the back-yard chef.

Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation's compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain loving one another.

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

One learns to itch where one can scratch.

Over a forty-two-year period.

Only time would tell.

Like Raistlin said, 'Tick-tock.'

I didn't try to run. I didn't even move. I just stood there and let justice take its course.

Der Vorhang ist noch nicht gefallen, oder?' Ich nickte. 'Es ist erst vorbei, wenn es vorbei ist. Und das ist es noch lange nicht.

There was no downtime between calls, because there were always several hundred morons in the call queue, all of them willing to wait on hold for hours to have a tech rep hold their hand and fix their problem. Why bother looking up the solution online? Why try to figure the problem out on your own when you could have someone else do your thinking for you?

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly in the only heritage he has to leave.

So I have learned to love and venerate the honker Wild Goose whom Mother Nature dowered with love unquenchable, constructed for her own good ends a monument of faithfulness unchanging, a creature heir of all the promises, so master of the hostile world around that he lives and spreads, defying plagues and beasts, and I wonder if this secret is not partly that the wise and patient mother leads.

People ask me a lot about the values I got from playing for the Cubs for so many years. The value I got out of it was patience. A lot of people these days are not very patient.

Blessed is the Second mouse for he shall inherit the Cheese.

As the sick man does not skip and leap around, his wishes do so all the more.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

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