Quotes About Patience

the greatest achievements take the deepest patience and the longest time.

it just seemed as if she were marking time while life rocketed past.

the mere description of multiple sexual acts does little or nothing for the reader. A single act, kept at bay, warmed to, stretched out, can have a marked erotic effect.

My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.

Water takes whatever shape it finds itself in. It does not judge, it does not complain, it does not try to change things. It is the source of patience. Given time it can wear away stone. Be like water.

Rule a kingdom as if cooking a small fish," he once told me. "If you interfere with it too much while cooking, it will fall apart and be inedible.

Who can be still while the muddy water settles? Who can remain still until the time comes for action?

It is actually in not doing that we have achieved this wondrous thing, Sire. All we did was create the space for the painting to happen and let it paint itself.

The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out.

The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.

The test of good manners is to be patient with bad ones.

The empty beds of rivers fill again; Trees leafless now renew their vernal bloom; Returning moons their lustrous phase resume; But man a second youth expects in vain.*

Alphabets and numbers weren't learnt a day, it took u time to learn' em, such is life take ur time in what u do

If The Phone Doesn't Ring, It's Me.

Small steps work—grandiose goals don't.

No. Don't never go looking for love girl. Just wait. It'll come. Like the rain fallin' from the heaven, it'll come. Just don't never give up on love.

Time crawled past on leaden hands and knees.

I'm a bit like a stone - content to stay wherever it is put.

She was the one who wanted to be with him, the one who watched and waited for him, who felt his absence badly.

Anger is like a piece of shredded wheat stuck in your dentures. If you leave it there, you'll get a blister and have to eat jello for a week.

I know better than anyone that sometimes a possibility is enough to keep a person going, even if it never becomes a reality.

Never mind. I'll find a leaf to talk to instead.

I have told you, my friend: do not expect always to be given the answer.

If you will allow Poirot to offer you a piece of wise advice: the pursuit of revenge is rarely a good idea.