Quotes About Patience

An hour of contemplation is preferable to a lifetime of ambition, though neither produces tangible results.

How are you?" "Good–" "Give it time…

It was pointless to worry about problems I didn't yet have.

midafternoon— and wait and watch.

I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

L'attesa é lunga, Il mio sogno de ti non é finito (The wait is long, My dream of you is not ended)

Occorrono troppe vite per farne una.

If by years of patient suffering, God can manage to take the harshness out of my voice, then the time has been well-spent.

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.

In learning as in traveling and, of course, in lovemaking, all the charm lies in not coming too quickly to the point, but in meandering around for a while.

Yet, my little Diary, I don't want to die, I still want to live .. I would wait

Love begets love. As he grew, Petya followed his sister everywhere… "Wait for me, Annoushka!" … And Anna did wait for him. She was to do so always.

People who've suffered don't have time to grumble.

And when Finn complained at the end of a day that they had not come very far, she said, "What does it matter? We've got all the time in the world." Which is not always a clever thing to say.

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

All things come to him who waits, but they are mostly leftovers from those who didn't wait.

She spent a great deal of time staring into space, oppressed by the sense that she was waiting. But waiting for what? She did not know. Surely someone would call, someone must be needing her. Yet each day proceeded like the one before. Nothing intense, nothing desperate, ever happened. Time did not move. The home, the city, the nation, and life itself were eternal; still she had a foreboding that one day, without warning and without pity, all the dear, important things would be destroyed.

Passava molto tempo a fissare il vuoto, oppressa da un senso di attesa. Ma attesa di che cosa? Non lo sapeva.

A wise man knows when to speak and when to stay quiet.

Whatever you are seeking you shall find. Patience and understanding, that's your key.