Quotes About Patience

Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble.

If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience and discipline in choosing between alternatives at a time when an impulsive decision seems very attractive.

You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.

No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.

Clearly the secret of happiness...is a variation on the general principle of banging your head against a wall, and then stopping.

Tomorrow is always a better day to be an idiot.

Ä°nsan sabahtan akÅŸama kadar bir ÅŸey olmas?n? bekler ve hiçbir ÅŸey olmaz. Bekleyip durur insan. Hiçbir ÅŸey olmaz. Ä°nsan bekler, bekler, bekler, ÅŸakaklar? zonklayana dek düÅŸünür, düÅŸünür, düÅŸünür. Hiçbir ÅŸey olmaz. Ä°nsan yaln?z kal?r. Yaln?z. Yaln?z.

Mais je t'attendais, je t'attendais, je t'attendais comme mon destin...

There are two kinds of pity. One, the weak and sentimental kind, which is really no more than the heart's impatience to be rid as quickly as possible of the painful emotion aroused by the sight of another's unhappiness ...; and the other, the only kind that counts, the unsentimental but creative kind, which knows what it is about and is determined to hold out, in patience and forbearance, to the very limit of its strength and even beyond.

He felt that it was a mistake to look for signs and portents instead of waiting until they were revealed to him in their own good time.

He desires only to preserve a few memories, assemble a few thoughts, to dream more than live and patiently await death, calmly preparing for it.

That...that was how I spent the day, just waiting, waiting, waiting...but waiting like a man running amok, senselessly, like an animal, with that headlong, direct persistance.

Ambition had never troubled me, so I decided to begin by watching life at my leisure for a few years, waiting until I finally felt tempted to find some circle of influence for myself.

no se suicida quien no ve esperanza, sino quien la ve y no tiene ni el remedio ni la paciencia para esperar su venida.

El hombre actual está preso en esa red desde la que cree navegar, pero la verdadera navegación necesita de días de calma en el mar, en los que nada pase, en los que se vida solo para esperar y contemplar, alimentando el anhelo de lo extraordinario con algo extraño ya hoy, la paciencia. Navegar trae también tempestades que amenazan con hundirnos, pero que no destensan la voluntad de seguir adelante.

By the way — I don't want you to think that in my own mind I have "given up the case", as we doctors so charmingly put it. On the contrary, it's just at this point that I refuse to give in, even if things continue as they are for another year, another five years.

All those who came in contact with him agreed that his main characteristic was his complacent and unshakable patience. Slow and steady rather than hot-blooded and vivacious, this worthy Swabian took quiet note of the phenomena occurring around him.

His thick-skinned placidity was unassailable. Calmness, toughness of mind, indefatigable and stubborn patience, these were his most salient traits. It was thanks to his unusual modesty and reserve, to his total lack of false ambition, and to his artless simplicity of demeanor, that so notable and so wealthy a man numbered among his innumerable acquaintances in Viennese society no enemies but only friends.

expect nothing from the future

Pero el tiempo es un aliado oportunista a incierto; se colocó siempre en el bando de los fuertes y deja despreciativamente en el atolladero al que confía en él sin moverse

ich mußte immer wieder aufstehen, so kalt war es im ensetzlichen Dunkel. Aber ich wartete, wartete, wartete auf Dich wie auf mein Schicksal.

Thunder does not come from a clear sky, nor yet from a cloud until there has been an accumulation of electrical stresses; and in like manner a miracle, if it is to happen, demands a particular predisposition, a peculiar nervous and religious tension of the mind. No one ever experiences a miracle unless he has long and passionately awaited it.

Só posso vos aconselhar a não vos precipitares; observai tudo com vossos próprios olhos, não mudeis coisa alguma, deixai que tudo siga seu curso, caso contrário o caos e a intriga serão infindos, e vós, meus queridos filhos, seríeis envolvidos em uma trama da qual jamais poderíeis vos libertar.