Quotes About Patience

Life's a garden — dig it.

Weed it and reap.

Flowers grow in inches, but are destroyed by feet.

They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. Golf is more complicated than that.

If you can sustain the insight that people are doing the best they can--if you can maintain some faith that this is an insight--you're solid. If not, maybe you should pack it in.

Life's too short when you find yourself sitting in a car for four hours every day trying to get from East L.A. to West L.A. to Hollywood and then back to East L.A.

God writes comedy but sometimes has a slow audience.

Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate every kind of crank and eccentric and mouth breather there is.

Growth is a slow process and so is change in behaviour. The therapist must be patient with the process.

So as far as chests go, whatever you're going to have there, you'll have there. In time. Sub-nubbins, nubbins, boopers, or super-droopers." I made her repeat the categories until I had committed them to memory.

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

Time is on the side of all things good.

The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves.

People are always worried about what's happening next. They often find it difficult to stand still, to occupy the now without worrying about the future. People are generally not satisfied with what they have; they are very concerned with what they are going to have.

This is a rule of racing: No race has ever been won in the first corner; many have been lost there.

I know this much about racing in the rain. I know it is about balance. It is about anticipation and patience... [it is also] about the mind! It is about owning one's body... It is about believing that you are not you; you are everything. And everything is you.

The race is long. It is better to drive within oneself and finish the race behind the other than it is to drive too hard and crash.

Here is why I will be a good person. Because I listen. I cannot speak so I listen very well. I never interrupt, I never deflect the course of the conversation with a comment of my own. ...I beg of you, pretend you are a dog like me and LISTEN to other people rather than steal their stories.

But what is worse, smelling the roast and not feasting, or not smelling the roast at all?

This is something I'd heard him say before: getting angry at another driver for a driving incident is pointless. You need to watch the drivers around you, understand their skill, confidence and aggression levels, and drive with them accordingly. Know who is driving next to you. Any problems that may occur have ultimately been caused by you, because you are responsible for where you are and what you are doing there.

But I wondered why they had waited for Eve's illness to make themselves available for companionship.

the race is long—to finish first, first you must finish.

Yes: the race is long-to finish first, first you must finish. ~p206

Here's why I will be a good person. Because I listen. I cannot speak so I listen very well. I never interrupt, I never deflect the course of the conversation with a comment of my own. People, if you pay attention to them, change the direction of one's conversations constantly. It's like having a passenger in your car who suddenly grabs the steering wheel and turns you down a side street.