Quotes About Patience

It's not what you want in this life, it's what you get that you have to do with.

When I want you to beg, I'll tell you.

Never, ever, sacrifice what you want the most, for what you want the most at that moment.

If you want something you have to wait.

The Lord may not come when you want Him, but he's always going to be there on time.

One day you'll love me, the way I love you. One day you'll think of me the way I think of you. One day you'll cry for me, the way I cry for you. One day you'll want me, but I won't want you.

If God doesn't want something for me, then I shouldn't want it either.

Isn't that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?

You don't destroy what you want to acquire in the future.

God may not be there when you want him but he is always on time.

It will be easier for you to bring him around to where you want him more by gentleness and patience than by being too uncompromising.

A lot of people kind of want to wait until you're off a show before they book you into a movie.

Yelling and screaming won't really get what I want from my kids.

I'm in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren't, either. Nobody goes faster than the legs they have. If where I want to go is far away, I'm not there in an instant.

Maybe nothing will ever change for us," he said. "But don't you want to be around just in case it does?

Sometimes people come out of school right now and they immediately want a job doing something. And there's nothing wrong with just listening and learning and watching.

I love working fast. I don't relish the director who wants to do 25 to 30 takes, or the actors who insist on doing 25 or 30 takes.

real strength is not hitting when what you most want to do is kill.

I get by on wishful thinking that when you come home you'll want to stay.

That's the huge problem with an abstract painting. When are you done? You're done when you don't want to do it anymore.

In the past five weeks I've trained hard, trying to get my ankle back to where I want it to be

I believe, in my better moments, that there is a plan and things go not the way we want them to but the way they should.

Sometimes when I hear criticism of my husband, I want to come out of my seat and clock somebody. But you learn to take a deep breath.

Sometimes you're not getting the laughs you want or at the place you want but that doesn't mean it's not funny. It means you haven't explored it enough.