Quotes About Patience

Ui: I don't muzzle the animal that does my heavy lifting. I overlook the foibles of my employees.

Sitting. Sitting is the hardest, Mr Ui. Yes, some people can walk, and some people can stand; but show me the man who knows how to sit.

La verità è figlia del tempo e non dell'autorità.

He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want in the moment

No man treats a motor car as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying behavior to sin, he does not say, "You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go." He attempts to find out what is wrong and set it right.

A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.

should be. I will never take

The way to find a needle in a haystack is to sit down.

After that, work and hope. But never hope more than you work

No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do they put their heads above the ground.

Control of the tongue! Vital for the man who would try to tread the Noble Eightfold Path, for no harsh or unkind word, no hasty impatient phrase, may escape from the tongue which is consecrated to service, and which must not injure even an enemy; for that which wounds has no place in the Kingdom of Love.

That is, adoration was patient and waiting while love or, if you liked, plain sexual passion banged everything about. It either shouted or thought it knew too much, and it had always left him cold and had not involved his heart. Therefore, if he wanted to get involved now it would be on his own terms and at his own pace.

With toddlers around, times are always interesting.

MOMMY WANTS A GLASS OF CHARDONNAY If you collected all the drops of days I've spent singing "Row, row, row your boat" to children fighting sleep, you'd have an ocean deep enough to drown them many times over.

I tried not to smile as I gathered the marbles. After counting them out by color and placing them into the holes, I looked at Sapphire and shrugged. 'There aren't enough.' Miz Obee's face tensed, but Sapphire looked at her friend kindly, patted the table, and said, 'Just set up the board as best you can. We'll play with whatever we got.' I thought that was one of the wisest things I'd ever heard anyone say.

Hun smilte til fru Odell og sa: Vi får gjøre som Scarlett O'Hara, og ikke bekymre oss for morgendagen før den er her.

You can't run around town tryin' to get even with every person who does you wrong. Ain't enough hours in the day to do that. Besides, two wrongs don't make a right.

From the highest branch he watches and waits. The horned owl keeps secrets.

I'd have given any- thing to know how Mom and Dad were, but you can't ask your parents such questions. You have to wait for them to tell you what it is that will happen next...

Love is what you give and love is what you want and love is how you wait, but it doesn't save you

Love is what you give and love is what you want and live is how you wait, but it doesn't save you

memoir is the life we have been waiting for.

How often we expect big things from God without preparing for big things from him