Quotes About Patience

As his grandfather said in that sage Pequot Indian manner of his, Wringin' your hands only stops you from rollin' up your sleeves.

Having survived the brutalities and humiliations of cancer, vanity seemed a foolish frivolity. She no longer had the patience for it.

He counted his steps. That was how you got through tough things. You counted. Once you said, "one," then you knew "two" was coming, and "three" right after that.

Endurance is the crowning quality…

In creating, the only hard thing's to begin;A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak.

It's 'most enough to make a deacon swear.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

There is no good arguing with the inevitible. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

There is no good arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

Father, the dark moths crouch at the sills of the earth, waiting.

God created the world in six days. On the seventh day, he rested. On the eighth day, he started getting complaints. And it hasn't stopped since.

pair of Jacks. Not much of a hand." "We'll play what we're dealt. That's what we always do.

All his life he had wished and waited, and there had been no change, except for the worse.

He was still where he had always been. Just hoping.

Ever since he had been a kid, he had wished and waited, and there had been no change except for the worst.

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

She wanted to start with names of things, things she could point to. Like Miss Sullivan with Helen Keller. She'd touch Weenie's nose, and say: 'Nose! That's your nose! You've got a nose!' Then she'd touch her own nose. Then his again. Back and forth." "She must not have had much to do.

Waiting at the wrong place, most like.

Maybe, I thought- reaching in the bag, taking out a stack of money and looking it over- maybe good luck was like bad luck in that it took a while to sink in. You didn't feel anything at first.

changing the plan at the last moment. "Oh, come on. The chicken can wait. Can't it? Sure it can." He was talking a mile a minute. "You can put the other thing back

I hope to stand firm enough not to go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

all his life he had "endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice.

He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success.