Quotes About Patience

I wasn't going through. I wasn't going through until everyone was out.

because if I was ever going to, I'd have done it already.

The point being that we still needed a better strategy for graduation than Wait and see if El can keep her big-girl pants on, and here I was whinging on about how nice it would be for me to do something unbelievably stupid instead, like Orion.

It wasn't that I wanted a husband and a baby; I didn't, or rather, I only wanted them the way I wanted to live to a hundred: someday, far off, never thinking about the particulars. But they meant life: she was living, and I wasn't.

But the world I wanted wasn't the world I lived in, and if I would do nothing until I could repair every terrible thing at once, I would do nothing forever.

But the world I wanted wasn't the world I lived in, and if I would do nothing until I could repair every terrible thing at one, I would do nothing forever.

Surely it's not too much to ask a little patience

But the world I wanted wasn't the world I lived in, and if I would do nothing until I could repair every terrible thinf at once, I would do nothing forever.

there is no decision to be made at present; and because we do not know what may be wrong there, we cannot think of something to do now. So you should not worry until we have arrived and seen how matters stand.

My anger's a bad guest, my mother likes to say: comes without warning and stays a long time.

could only buy it by giving in sooner, giving in all the time; like Scheherazade, humbly asking my murderous husband to go on sparing me night after night. And

What would it be like to be a turtle inside a shell hit by hailstones?

You Have to Be Very Careful" You have to be careful telling things. Some ears are tunnels. Your words will go in and get lost in the dark. Some ears are flat pans like the miners used looking for gold. What you say will be washed out with the stones. You look for a long time till you find the right ears. Till then, there are birds and lamps to be spoken to, a patient cloth rubbing shine in circles, and the slow, gradually growing possibility that when you find such ears they already know.

why are we so monumentally slow?

Silence waits for truth to break it

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

Don't wait the time will never be right.

Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of 50.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

the cause of the depression is traceable directly to the worldwide habit of trying to reap without sowing.

The oak sleeps in the acorn. The bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul, a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of reality.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

In parting, I would remind you that "Life is a checkerboard, and the player opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving, or neglect to move promptly, your men will be wiped off the board by time. You are playing against a partner who will not tolerate decisions!

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when overtaken by temporary defeat.