Quotes About Patience

They say the secret of success is being at the right place at the right time, but since you never know when the right time is going to be, I figure the trick is to find the right place and just hang around.

Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.

Never argue with a six-year-old who shaves.

I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.

Wake up, get up… Shut up. Listen up… Throw up…Mix up, Goof up… Hurry up… How's your day? Looking up.

My Hero Just as the hare is zipping across the finish line, the tortoise has stopped once again by the roadside, this time to stick out his neck and nibble a bit of sweet grass, unlike the previous time when he was distracted by a bee humming in the heart of a wildflower.

Just pour the tea, just look into the eye of the flower, just sing the song— one thing at a time and

Do you realize that if you had started building the Parthenon on the day you were born you would be all done in only one more year? Of course, you couldn't have done it alone, so never mind, you're fine just as you are. You are loved simply for being yourself.

They say there's a heaven for those who will wait Some say it's better but I say it ain't I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints The sinners are much more fun

as I made the attempt to put God first, some of my other heartfelt needs were given back to me.

Never make a permanent decision about a temporary situation.

Most people fail rather than succeed because they give up what they really want for what they want at the moment.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do.

We never keep to the present. We recall the past; we anticipate the future as if we found it too slow in coming and were trying to hurry it up, or we recall the past as if to stay its too rapid flight. We are so unwise that we wander about in times that do not belong to us, and do not think of the only one that does; so vain that we dream of times that are not and blindly flee the only one that is. The fact is the present usually hurts.

I have often said that the sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.

I have often said the soul cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in a room. (Page 32)

Two infinites. Mean. When we read too quickly or too slowly we do not understand anything.

Tout le malheur des hommes vient d'une seule chose, qui est de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos, dans une chambre.

The sole case of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room

Chess is the gymnasium of the mind

all of man's problems come from the inability to sit quietly in a room.

All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.