Quotes About Patience

When you have done your best for a flower, and it fails, you have some reason to be aggrieved.

Dear soulmate, I don't know who you are, where you live, or what you look like. But I pray for you every nite and I ask God to point you in my direction.

At seventeen I'm waiting for my life to actually begin. I'm afraid I'll wake up tomorrow eighty years old and I WILL STILL BE WAITING.

We're all waiting for something.

Sometimes... I feel as if I'm not supposed to get better.

I am not waiting for a prince on a white horse. I am waiting for you... So why don't you kiss me?

It is amazing how the public steadfastly refuse to attend the third day of a match when so often the last day produces the best and most exciting cricket.

God's delay is not God's denial.

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

Some people can never understand that you have to wait, even for the best of things, until the right time comes.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Untold suffering seldom is.

I don't like my shoes,' said Rose. 'I'm wearing my shoes and you don't see me complain.' 'You only hear a person complain,' said Rose. 'Not see.' How has Rose lived for seventeen years and no one has killed her, not once?

I don't mean to be ungrateful but if someone's out there answering prayers, mine's not at the top of the list

Perhaps you should put your head down." I knew this was the thing to do, although I've never fainted and I don't intend to.

The first meeting of the Fraternitus Bad-Boyificus was also to be my first fighting lesson. I made a fist and showed it to Eldric. "Fistibus Briony." I shook my fist. "Eldric terrorificorumest?" "Terrific? I'm terrific!" "Not terrific!" I said. "Quite the opposite. Listen carefully: terrorificorum." "Hmm," said Eldric. "Grant me patience, O Jupiter Magnificum!" "Not terrified!" shouted Eldric at last. "never terrified of Briony's fistibus!" We laughed and laughed.

Do not cast your pearls before swine.

Endlich, wie denn in dieser Welt jedes noch so hartnäckige Stehenbleiben doch nur ein unvermerktes Weiterrücken ist, erscheint auch diesem Status quo ein Hoffnungsstrahl.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

I like long walks, especially when they're taken by people who annoy me.

I can't understand why a person will take a year or two to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.