Quotes About Patience

Sometimes, Carter told her, you got to let a garden tend itself.

The guards had asked the Doctor to please wait in the hallway until Mr McCavity had time to see him. So it seemed only polite, the Doctor thought, to wait until they had gone before he wandered off to explore the house.

Trust the tide, Gracie. Trust the tide.

My last words to him were to assure him that we would bring Sally to join him later. And you know what your dad said? He said that he would wait for as long as it took." Grace bit her lip. "But she never came, did she? And he never stopped waiting.

I had waited a long time to say those words, and I thought it would be hard to use them, that the claim would be too big for me. Surprisingly, it wasn't. I had grown into the words.

Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.

Be gentle with the young.

Expectation is the worst emotional disturbance. What will happen will happen, what won't happen, won't.

patient striving with tolerances in the quiet war against error.

I know she comes across as annoying to begin with," he said. "But once you've got to know her a bit better, you'll find it makes no difference whatsoever.

It's how I do things. First, despair. Then hope.

Be specially polite to people who annoy you. True feelings are for true friends.

Still, it was better than sitting around playing cards waiting to have your throat cut.

Granted, I told Her, that your grand design is undoubtedly something very nasty and bad, eventually, in the long term. But you're immortal and I'm not, so if I stop you now, you'll just wait till I'm dead and start all over again, so really, what's the point in me interfering?

At least we had work to do, and work fills in the time, and time is the enemy.

With all the decision making in my life, I often have to pause, look up and remember God is the One working behind the scenes. I say to myself, "He is able to work all things out for good. I just need to submit to Him and His ways. I can rest.

Can't you see? Why do you try to catch the flashes in the sky? Why don't you be the sky, rising above everything, silent, watching, waiting?

Io sono come un orso. Con le braccia tese in alto aspetto il sorgere del sole.

The fish you don't catch is always the biggest.

Why fight with an enemy who flees way at the mere twang of our bow

Be slow to love, but yet more slow With secret mate; With those whose hearts we do not know, Love turns to hate.

Srce pravi... Kdaj se bova dvignila? Razum pravi... Kdaj bova šla? Pol leta utrujaš svoje možgane, cilj pa je samo kilometer pro?.

Oh, razum, vse se zgodi, ko nastopi ?as za to. Vrtnar lahko drevo zalije stokrat, toda sadje bo zraslo, ko bo prišel pravi letni ?as.

Since in order to speak, one must first listen, learn to speak by listening. Rumi, Mathnawi I: 1627