Quotes About Patience

There is no avoidance in delay.

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.

Do not count your chickens before they are .

Do not attempt too much at once.

Don't be in a hurry to change one evil for another.

The loiterer often imputes delay to his more active friend.

Oh, you aren't even ripe yet! I don't need any sour grapes.

Be content with your lot one cannot be first in everything.

Plodding wins the race.

Little by little does the trick.

Those who suffer most cry out the least.

However long the night, the dawn will break.

The best way to eat the elephant standing in your path is to cut it up into little pieces.

It is not with saying, Honey, Honey, that sweetness will come into the mouth.

By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

Time is the best killer.

To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.

He laughs best who laughs at the end.

I'm not often bored,' I assured her. "Life's not long enough for that.

No sign, so far, of anything sinister—but I live in hope.

You are the patient one, Mademoiselle,' said Poirot to Miss Debenham. She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What else can one do?' You are a philosopher, Mademoiselle.' That implies a detached attitude. I think my attitude is more selfish. I have learned to save myself useless emotion.

How fast you go. You arrive at a conclusion much sooner than I would permit myself to do.

Sometimes one sees things clearly years afterwards than one could possibly at the time.