Quotes About Patience

You can't win before the finish line. Be Patient.

The sky falls. But there are other skies behind it. You just can't see it at the time.

A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.

my mother chose to teach me that sometimes gratification has to be delayed.

It moves at its own measured pace, for it has no reason to hurry. Tomorrow will come in its own good time.

When you don't know what to do, wait for your opponent to get an idea — it's sure to be wrong!

I sit in my room at my desk, looking out the window to the yard and waiting for a plot to come to me, to rise slowly in my mind.

Books; what a jolly company they are, Standing so quiet and patient on their shelves, Dressed in dim brown, and black, and white, and green And every kind of colour. Which will you read? Come on; O do read something; they're so wise. I tell you all the wisdom of the world Is waiting for you on those shelves; and yet You sit and gnaw your nails, and let your pipe out, And listen to the silence.

I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and I just don't have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change, but I can't obsess about it.

You can't hurry love, as the song goes. You can't hurry grief either.

God will find you," said the priest quietly. "Stay calm and do not flee from Him who has been seeking you before you even existed in your mother's womb.

Stay calm and do not flee from Him who has been seeking you before you even existed in your mother's womb.

Sometimes just being still is the best thing you can do for yourself.

As long as it still hurts, it isn't love yet.

How short life would be if certain unpleasant moments didn't make it feel endless!

The wildness that comes in the waiting. In the sitting.

Sit in these auditions for three weeks and hear "I Believe I Can Fly" out of tune for the millionth time, YOU try and be nice

Often, G-d waits to send you the blessing of an appropriate mate until you are ready to receive it by sincerely devoting yourself to spiritual growth, rather than just to your career or social life.

Happy endings are only stories that haven't finished yet.

in business doing nothing is often the hardest thing. (And not just in business. Harold Macmillan, prime minister during the Cuban missile crisis, mused then 'on the frightful desire to do something, with the knowledge that not to do anything was prob. the right answer'.)

There has been peace. There will be peace again. But right now, we have work to do.

And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust.

I spend long, long time in shoe box.

Slow, fast, makes no difference. God turns the world at one speed.