Quotes About Patience

All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.

We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.

When you're young, you're more prone to overlook friends' faults and forgive their weaknesses because you know you're all still cooking and nobody's done.

Guys are like buses [...] Why get on the first one you see, when there's another one coming right after? Or something like that. Or maybe it's the opposite. I heard that on Oprah.

It is an easy thing to triumph in the summer's sun, And in the harvest to sing on the wagon loaded with corn. It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted, To speak the laws of prudence to the houseless wanderer, To listen to the hungry raven's cry in the winter season, When the red blood is filled with wine and with the marrow of lambs.

Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered.

But a pearl, she reminded herself, comes from something uninvited and difficult, a grain of sand in an oyster, something that eventually, over time, becomes a thing of beauty.

Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.

Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success they are interested in your money.

When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts.

If you want plenty of experience in dealing with difficult people, then have kids.

Baseball and football are very different games. In a way, both of them are easy. Football is easy if you're crazy as hell. Baseball is easy if you've got patience. They'd both be easier for me if I were a little more crazy — and a little more patient.

For God's sakes, quit worrying about your next job. Just do the best you can at the job you have now, and the offers will come. And when they do, if you have confidence in yourself you don't have to feel that you can't turn it down if it isn't quite right for you because you fear you'll never get another offer. You will. Wait for the right opportunity, and turn down all the rest. It will make all the difference.

It takes many years of hard work to become an overnight success.

You know what's driving *me* crazy? You, not getting the ball in the hole.

Well, every year I think, should I sign for another year? And I do. And then should I sign for another year? And one year I think I'll probably say, no, I don't think I will. And people will say, well, you're going to be bored. Well, I'd like to find out what it feels like maybe to be bored.

who achieve great things that the world will never forget, start out by accomplishing small things that the world will never see.

You see," Pindar continued, "the majority of people operate with a mindset that says to the fireplace, 'First give me some heat, then I'll throw on some logs.' Or that says to the bank, 'Give me interest on my money, then I'll make a deposit.' And of course, it just doesn't work that way.

And here I sit so patientlyWaiting to find out what priceYou have to pay to get out ofGoing through all these things twice.

Golf's a hard game to figure. One day you'll go out and slice it, shank it, hit all the traps, and miss every green. The next day you go out and, for no reason at all, you really stink

I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance–waiting for the bathroom.

My father told me all about the birds and the bees, the liar - I went steady with a woodpecker till I was twenty-one.

If I'm on the course and lightning starts, I get inside fast. If God wants to play through, let him.