Quotes About Patience

If it takes me 10 years to be the musician I want to be, great.

People are waiting in line for 15 years before they get rejected, O.K.? That's why people don't want to invest in America.

Sometimes it's a good idea to think about what you want from a situation, and try to get it, rather than just blurt out the first thing that comes into your head.

I swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you've been doing. It's a hundred years since we've met-it may be another hundred before we meet again.

Man wants little, nor that little long.

Life does not always gives us the choices that we want

Blessings can come in a number of ways. The Lord doesn't give you what you want, the Lord gives you what you need.

We should wish for few things with eagerness, if we perfectly knew the nature of that which was the object of our desire.

Care, but don't be pushy! Don't preach about enlightenment to people who don't really want to hear about it.

When the answer doesn't come, it's not supposed to come yet. Don't make eternity try and conform to what you want. That's desire. desire leads to frustration.

Whatever you need will be provided. Eternity takes care of everything perfectly. So never want for that which you do not have; you have exactly what you need.

Hope dies to ten thousand small cuts.

Time promised everything and delivered nothing.

The heart of wisdom is tolerance. I think.

The curse of great minds. Arriving young to an idea, surviving the siege that invariably assails it, then, finally, standing guard on the ramparts long after the war's over, weapons dull in leaden hands

Expectation is the hoary curse of humanity.

Leisure is not a relevant notion. Consider the weariness that often afflicts your kind, late in their lives. Then multiply that countless times. This is the burden of being long-lived.

Because true friends knew when to keep silent, to give all the patience needed.

Anger burned for only so long

It was amazing what could be endured when in the grip of inertia.

When you play a soldier, you play it to the hilt. Nobody talks about what's obvious. Something staring you in the eye, you look around it and grumble about the weather. Anything important will come out in its own time. Soldiers have nothing to look forward to, making patience an easy virtue, and sometimes it's not just a virtue, but a contest of indifference.

An army that waits is soon an army at war with itself

Marching on a promise never given

It's the game of seeing all but reacting to nothing. Until necessity forces the issue.