Quotes About Patience

He had always thought of mathematics as a treasure hunt. First, one had to decide where to dig; then one had to determine the proper excavation route that led to the answer. Once you had a plan, you could make formulas to fit it, and they would give you clues. If you wound up empty-handed, you had to go back to the beginning and choose another route. Only by doing this over and over, patiently, yet boldly, could you hope to find the treasure—a solution no one else had ever found.

Don't worry. It'll work out somehow." "…Whenever you say that, I get scared things'll actually happen that way." "Oh? Why would you get scared ?

Maybe the trying is the thing. Maybe it doesn't get better than that. Maybe you never quite get there. And maybe that's okay.

Rich and very rich people have developed the discipline of delayed gratification. Millionaires do today what others don't, so they can have tomorrow what others won't.

Hi, this is Keith Ferrazzi. I'm just calling back because I haven't heard from Michael." Here again, without being too pushy, you begin to create the presumption that his return call is imminent and expected.

That isn't always enough. I had written a piece for the Wall Street Journal's weekly column called the Manager's Journal. The editor liked the piece but kept pushing it back so he could publish other pieces that were timelier. So I began to rewrite the intros to my piece each week to relate to something that was in the news at the time. In short order, the article finally saw the light of day.

And when you do finally connect, don't sabotage your efforts by expressing how annoyed you are that they didn't get back to you as quickly as you would have liked. Nor should you apologize for your persistence. Just dive in as if you caught him on the first call. Make it comfortable for everyone.

I remembered that my father and mother had told me to speak less in such situations; the less you say, the more you'll likely hear. That's the way you learn from others.

Young lovers seek perfection. Old lovers sew shreds together and see beauty in the multiplicity of patches.

As in all things: Time will clarify the events that are presently unclear.

The world tells us what we need to know when we are ready to know it and not before. That's the way of things.

Il mondo ci dice ciò che abbiamo bisogno di sapere nel momento in cui siamo pronti a saperlo, e non prima. Questa è la via delle cose

You can't always get what you want But if you try sometimes, Well, You just might find you get what you need.

Life should come with such a statement. No Promises. Just lots of hope.

God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress.

Learning to sit with ambiguity can be a very important start at a life liberated from anxiety—and the way to do it is to resist the urge to chase answers to questions that may actually be unanswerable.

Part of you is always traveling faster, always traveling ahead. Even when you are moving, it is never fast enough to satisfy that part of you.

When things don't please you, the best medicine is to swallow a little tincture of time.

You can't tell a horse's gait till she's broke.

Do not desire what you can't acquire.

It's easier to catch a horse than break him.

Some men are so well-tempered they can lose it every day and never run out.

Some folks have their good points but they keep jabbin' you with 'em like they was spurs.

If you fall in a cactus patch, you kin expect to pick stickers.