Quotes About Patience

It's my motto for life. 'Walk slowly; drink lots of water.

The strength I'm looking for isn't the type where you win or lose. I'm not after a wall that'll repel power coming from outside. What I want is the kind of strength to be able to absorb that kind of power, to stand up to it. The strength to quietly endure things - unfairness, misfortunes, sadness, mistakes, misunderstandings.

The right words always seemed to come too late.

The human heart is like a night bird. Silently waiting for something, and when the time comes, it flies straight toward it.

You have to wait until tomorrow to find out what tomorrow will bring.

I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love.

I have a lot more patience for others than I have for myself, and I'm much better at bringing out the best in others than in myself. That's just the kind of person I am. I'm the scratchy stuff on the side of the matchbox. But that's fine with me. I don't mind at all. Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match.

Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane.

In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be.

When there's nothing to do, you do nothing slowly and intently.

In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion,' she repeats, making sure of it. If she had paper and pencil, it wouldn't surprise me if she wrote it down. So what does that really mean? In simple terms. I think it over. It takes me a while to gather my thoughts, but she waits patiently. I think it means, I say, that chance encounters are what keep us going. In simple terms.

Once again, life had a lesson to teach me: It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.

Will you wait for me forever?

He was silent for thirty seconds, maybe a minute. I uncrossed my legs under the table and wondered if this was the right moment to leave. It was as if my whole life revolved around trying to judge the right point in a conversation to say goodbye.

I get irritated, I get upset. Especially when I'm in a hurry. But I see it all as part of our training. To get irritated is to lose our way in life.

Now all you can do is wait. It must be hard for you, but there is a right time for everything. Like the ebb and flow of tides. No one can do anything to change them. When it is time to wait, you must wait.

Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.

All you have to do is wait," I explained. "Sit tight and wait for the right moment. Not try to change anything by force, just watch the drift of things. Make an effort to cast a fair eye on everything. If you do that, you just naturally know what to do. But everyone's always too busy. They're too talented, their schedules are too full. They're too interested in themselves to think about what's fair.

I guess I don't really understand you yet,' I said. 'I'm not all that smart. It takes me a while to understand things. But if I do have time, I will come to understand you -- better than anyone else in the world ever can.

At least he never walked.

It's true though: time moves in its own special way in the middle of the night, the bartender says, loudly striking a book match and lighting a cigarette. You can't fight it.

It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.

Thinking about spaghetti that boils eternally but is never done is a sad, sad thing.

What's nurtured slowly grows well.