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Quotes About Patience

WHAT DO WE WANT?! PATIENCE! WHEN DO WE WANT IT?! NOW!
~ Al Franken
The Democratic Senator's Serenity Prayer God Grant Me the Serenity to Accept the Things I Cannot Legislate The Courage to Legislate the Things I Can The Wisdom to Know the Difference And the Patience to Explain That Difference to My Donors
~ Al Franken
Hard work pays off in the end, but laziness pays off now.
~ Al Lubel
It's never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you - you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
~ Al Pacino
It turned out that time doesn't heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
~ Al Pacino
What is a thousand years Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.
~ Alain
What is ten thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.
~ Alain
When I was a young man I vowed never to marry until I found the ideal woman. Well, I found her but, alas, she was waiting for the ideal man.
~ Alain
If I'm trying to explain something and you don't follow me, it's not simply your job to catch up. It's my job to slow down. This is at the heart of communicating: If I tell you something without making sure you got it, did I really communicate anything? Was I talking to you, or was I just making noises? In the mirror exercise, is the leader enabling the follower to follow, or is he just waving his arms?
~ Alan Alda
Real conversation can't happen if listening is just my waiting for you to finish talking.
~ Alan Alda
Pooh went into a corner and tried saying 'Aha!' in that sort of voice. Sometimes it seemed to him that it did mean what Rabbit said, and sometimes it seemed to him that it didn't. "I suppose it's just practice," he thought. "I wonder if Kanga will have to practise too so as to understand it.
~ Alan Alexander Milne
It isn't as easy as I thought. I suppose that's why Heffalumps hardly ever get caught.
~ Alan Alexander Milne
Rabbit scratched his whiskers thoughtfully, and pointed out that, when once Pooh was pushed back, he was back, and of course nobody was more glad to see Pooh than he was, still there it was, some lived in trees and some lived underground, and-- "You mean I'd never get out?" said Pooh. "I mean," said Rabbit, "that having got so far, it seems a pity to waste it.
~ Alan Alexander Milne
The days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
~ Alan Bennett
A road need not be paved in gold to find treasures at its end.
~ Alan Brennert
Waiting does not exist in the experience of those who recognize the presence of love wherever they are.
~ Alan Cohen
Always seek to allow others the space to be imperfect.
~ Alan Downs
Flying involves endless hours of sheer boredom, punctuated by moments of stark terror.
~ Alan E. Diehl
Far too often we lose patience with the process and quit too soon, missing out on what we could have gained.
~ Alan E. Nelson
Do not buy into the idea that you have to keep relocating to accomplish your dreams in life.
~ Alan E. Nelson
I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as "writer's impatience", and to follow Arthur Koestler's dictum: "Soak; and wait.
~ Alan Garner
But what can we do?" said Susan. "Think, and hope," said Cadellin. "I would rather seek and find," said Uthecar.
~ Alan Garner
to show that he kept watch and worked that the world would not be lost. And, as he sat, hope came.
~ Alan Garner
So the books are waiting. Of this you may be confident: they'll be ready when the whim strikes you.
~ Alan Jacobs