Quotes About Patience

A man may tear a jewel From a sea monster's jaws, Cross a tumultuous sea Of raging tides, Or twine garlandwise A wrathful serpent on his head. But no man can alter The thoughts of an obstinate fool.

Trees are bowed down with weight of fruit, Clouds big with rain hang low, So good men humbly bear success, Nor overweening grow.

When you plant seeds in the garden, you don't dig them up every day to see if they have sprouted yet. You simply water them and clear away the weeds; you know that the seeds will grow in time. Similarly, just do your daily practice and cultivate a kind heart. Abandon impatience and instead be content creating the causes for goodness; the results will come when they're ready.

Do not speak fast, for that shows folly.

Do not speak quickly; it is a sign of insanity.

Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us .

For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little.

A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under control.

Be ye angry and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath.

Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.

A mild answer calms wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Fret not thyself, it tends only to evil-doing.

Don't run too far, you will have to return the same distance.

He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.

Christians and camels receive their burdens kneeling.

Ustas? kar??s?nda yitip gitmek üzereyken...Bekliyordu.Ustan?n son ad?m? atmas?n? bekliyordu hâlâ.Ustas?,orta ipin alt?ndaki halkaya tutunmu?tu bile.Ama seyircilerin çepeçevre sard???,ince kum dö?eli oyun alan? kendisine h?zla yakla??rken,ba??rt?lar?n,ç??l?klar?n içinde seçemedi ustas?n?n "vah ?a?k?n o?lum" diyen sesini.??itemedi.

There we go, that's it. I just hold my hand in this position for the next couple of hours.

It's not a beard, it's an animal I've trained to sit very still.

If there is one thing that marks families with money over the long term it is this: delayed gratification.

Sometimes they are a matter of luck the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.

I had a couple of movies that I was passionately involved with that I could never get made. 'Richard Pryor ' I wrote for - gosh - over a year. That was close to getting made for two-and-a-half years after that. We're still pushing it, you know. It is weird. Suddenly you wake up and it's like, 'God, five years have gone by.'

No piece of writing is ever finished. It's just due.

Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.