Quotes About Patience

It was from them that I learned that hard work in stable surroundings could yield rewards, even if only in infinitesimally small increments.

Plays, especially great plays, yield their secrets over a long period of time. You can't read it three times and say, 'OK, I got it. I know what's happening.'

Food's not done until it yields something, maybe its soul or maybe just its secrets, and how long you're willing to wait for that to happen is a secret all your own.

The journey that 'In Praise of Slowness' has made since publication shows how far this message resonates. The book has been translated into more than 30 languages. It appears on reading lists from business schools to yoga retreats. Rabbis, priests and imams have quoted from it in their sermons.

One of my favorite workouts to do with my girlfriends is yoga. We are equally impatient with our yoga. We are those people who are sweating in the back, and we'll be in downward dog giggling and looking at each other. And I know what we're all thinking: What are we going to order for dinner afterward?

Relationships are like the world's most intense yoga! It's a daily practice.

No yoga. I can barely sit down.

My wife's trying to get me into yoga, and it's gonna take me a while, but eventually I'm gonna have to.

Yoga is immediately rewarding, whatever your level, because it's not about being able to attain the perfect lotus position. Each day, there is an improvement on the day before. It's not competitive; it's not a race. With yoga, the journey is the destination.

I love yoga because it allows me to slow down and experience how good it feels to be in relationship to my body. It teaches me patience, acceptance, and how to receive.

It took eight years for DDP Yoga to become an overnight sensation.

I was a children's yoga instructor in high school, which was a lot of fun but hard work. I remember once trying to teach 13 three year olds how to do tree pose... not so easy.

I tried doing yoga to see if it would make me a more patient person, but I lost interest after about six minutes.

When you fly to New York, sometimes they put you on hold and you just go round and around in a holding pattern. Sometimes in a concert, I feel other spirits in a holding pattern that they want to land through my heart and through my fingers.

It was memorable the first time 'The New Yorker' bought a cartoon from me. I had been sending them batches for years every week, and they didn't respond to them.

Even with Yorkshire I had 19 fifties before I got my first hundred.

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

You just have to take a deep breath, relax and let the game come to you.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

You usually have to wait for that which is worth waiting for.

The climb might be tough and challenging,but the view is worth it. There is a purpose for that pain; you just can't always see it right away.

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.