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Quotes About Patience

Sometimes, we don't get what we want. . . But this is a benevolent universe. And once in a while, we do.
~ Melody Beattie
Enjoy your children, even when they don't act the way you want them to.
~ Muhammad Ali
I'm not above acting like a seal every once in a while and waiting for the next fish, I just don't want to do it all the time.
~ Fred Thompson
Our loving Heavenly Father wants us to become more like him. God understands that we get there not in an instant, but by taking one step at a time.
~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Sometimes, it's not getting what we want that offers us the most important Lessons
~ Joseph Boyden
I'm very impatient, so I was like, 'I want to be able to do whatever I want now.' But even the biggest stars - you look back and they weren't overnight.
~ Donald Glover
I'd love to direct a film, but I don't think I have the temperament for it. I'm very hyper, and I want things to be done ASAP. If I turn director, I might end up killing my actors.
~ Shilpa Shetty
Train at your current fitness level, or slightly above — not where you want to be.
~ Scott Jurek
Most people want to get what they want, whereas the secret is to want what you get at this moment.
~ Eckhart Tolle
No one wants to hear about the labor pains, they just want to see the baby.
~ Lou Brock
A staple of my personality is that I want what I want - and Im willing to do without until I get it.
~ Mara Brock Akil
People who don't want to weather some of the rough periods miss out on something better.
~ Lisa Niemi
Men like a ref decision because they just want to get back to the game.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
Family, to me, is most important, and I can't wait to have one of my own, but I am not going to rush into it. I don't want to get a divorce. I want to take my time, do it once and get it right.
~ Drew Fuller
Some people, you have to grit your teeth in order to stay in the same room as them, but you get on and ask the questions you assume most of the people watching want to ask.
~ Morley Safer
How' is always more important that 'what.' See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it.
~ Eckhart Tolle
One cannot scold or complain at every word. Learn to endure patiently, or else, as I live and breathe, you shall learn it whether you want or not.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
Hopefully my hair grows really quick, I want it long again
~ Miley Cyrus
I've always been very skeptical about marriage, because I only want to do it once; I want to do it the right way.
~ Sandra Bullock
It's hard not to want to strangle people when you work with them for four years.
~ Lea Thompson
My dear, life rarely gives us what we want at the moment we consider appropriate. Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
~ Peggy Ashcroft
you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
~ Charles Kettering
We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
~ Samuel Johnson
Everyone wants answers and wants to know what the timeline is. Unfortunately, it's a complex situation, and we don't have the final answers yet.
~ Dennis Miller