Quotes About Patience

Lesson no. 5: Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story

Lesson no. 3: Many people see happiness only in their future.

It is my feeling that Time ripens all things with Time all things are revealed Time is the father of truth.

Everything comes in time to those who can wait.

What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face? How shall I charm the interval that lowers Between this time and that sweet time of grace?

Marriage is an exercise in torture.

If you have a good voice, sing boldly. In the company of people who ask you, and by yourself for your own pleasure, sing; but do not abuse their patience, so that people will say, as they sometimes do, "Good singers are often a bore.

Popular spite attributes a proverb to the medical profession: "Take while the patient is in pain.

If you unfortunately visit a patient and find him dead, and they ask you why you came, say you knew he would die that night, but want to know at what hour he died.

In Mosca's experience, a 'long story' was always a short story someone did not want to tell.

Making a wish is like saying, 'I can't deal with anything, I give up, somebody bigger come along and solve it all instead.

They understood something together at that moment, Makepeace and Bear. Sometimes you had to be patient through pain, or people gave you more pain. Sometimes you had to weather everything and take your bruises. If you were lucky, and if everyone thought you were tamed and trained... there might come a time when you could strike.

I died recently, and I am in no hurry to enjoy the experience again just yet.

Well, if you are to help me with my work, you had better get used to stories without endings. True stories seldom have endings.

Bear] was curious and patient, but his fear could whip-crack into rage in an instant.

Why should she weep to hear that nothing was set in stone? Everything could change. Everything could get better. Everything was getting better, inch by inch, so slowly that she could not see it, but knowing it gave her strength.

Changing a law is like digging a new field. You'll break ancient roots and blunt your spade with a lot of stones, but eventually plants will grow in your furrows, and your new hedge will thrive and it'll be as if it always was that way.

Somehow, something always happens just before things get to the very worst. It is as if Magic did it. If I could only just remember that always. The worse thing never quite comes.

Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.

My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out.

Wise men fish here.

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blowwom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.

Acepta la vida tal como es, no quieras que sea otra cosa. Y no esperes grandes acontecimientos. Piensa que la existencia cotidiana es tu verdadera escuela; el resto son actividades extraescolares.