Quotes About Patience

Willing to delay gratification and make sacrifices in the short term so you can enjoy far greater rewards in the long term

Nunca me faltó una comida, aunque pospuse muchas de ellas por tiempo indefinido.

Inner peace is impossible without patience. Wisdom requires patience. Spiritual growth implies the mastery of patience. Patience allows the unfolding of destiny to proceed at its won unhurried pace.

All is love...All is love. With love comes understanding. With understanding comes patience. And then time stops. And everything is now.

I told you, in my last, that He sometimes permits bodily diseases to cure the distempers of the soul. Have courage then: make a virtue of necessity: ask of GOD, not deliverance from your pains, but strength to bear resolutely, for the love of Him, all that He should please, and as long as He shall please.

It is certainly quite wrong to read a poem in a hurry, as if it were a telegram.

Bruno, Irene Nemirovsky

I've watched snails climb over ten foot walls and vanish.

Never ask for anything! Never for anything, and especially from those who are stronger than you. They'll make the offer themselves, and give everything themselves.

As in so many human endeavors, the secrets to success are patience, persistence, and minimizing mistakes. In driving, it's having no serious accidents; in tennis, the key is getting the ball back; and in investing, it's indexing—to avoid the expenses and mistakes that do so much harm to so many investors.

There is no simple road to riches for you and your family. The secret to getting wealthy is that there is no secret. The only way to get rich—unless you inherit or marry a fortune or hit the lottery—is to get rich slowly. Start early and contribute as much as possible to your savings for as long as possible.

Trust in time rather than in timing.

Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing has ever happened that didn't need to happen.

Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it—it's just easier if you do.

Everything happens at exactly the right moment.

Everyone likes ice cream, he said, white with rage. The mask of patience was slipping, and I don't know how I managed to hold back my tears. Everyone except you, son, because you're a moron.

A certain peace had come over me. I was discovering that time, long-term time made of days, weeks and months, and not of horrific moments as before, was operating in my favor. Nothing else was, but that didn't worry me. Time was enough. I clung on to time, and consequently to learning, the only human activity that makes time our ally.

Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

You untangle a knot with slow teasing, not sharp pulling, and believe me we have here a knot such as I have never seen. But I will unpick it. I will.

When you set sail for Ithaca, wish for the road to be long, full of adventures, full of knowledge.

Before finding the one you have to find your furtre

Oswald: All your life Aurore: What? Oswald: All your life, isn't that what you wanted to know? How long I loved you? Aurore: Well, yes, I suppose I did, but that wasn't what I was going to ask just now. Oswald: I tell you I've loved you since the day you were born, and you tell me you want to know something else. There's no one quite like you, is there, Aurore?

True love comes when it will, not when it's called.