Quotes About Patience

On God for all events depend; You cannot want when God's your friend. Weigh well your part and do your best; Leave to your Maker all the rest.

In the first year of a child's life we teach them to walk and talk. And then for the rest of their lives we want them to sit down and be quiet.

You must have a bladder like Lake Erie. I think empires rose and fell in the time it took you to pee. I could hear it the whole time." Thank you. Do you want something?

I've learned more, and I understand the process a bit better now. I can try to see how long I want to take in each aspect of the filmmaking process, and then arrive at around the two-year end mark.

The career isn't guaranteed for as long as you might want to play.

If I can't do what I want to do, then my job is to not do what I want to do. It's not the same thing, but it's the best thing I can do.

Life is never as long as we want it to be, and wasted time can never be recovered.

I hope that's true, because I figured out why I'd never finished it, what I was waiting for. I was waiting for you, Clare. For them. For us. I want to finish it up for you, for them, for us.

One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times.

I have seen the breakups between people who love each other and rush into getting married too quickly and I do not want to make that mistake.

It's pretty tough on your loved ones to try to get back into a rhythm, especially when all you want to do is do nothing.

Investing is far more cumulative [than chess]. So long as you're sharp, you can do it for as long as you want.

When God wants to drive a person insane, he grants that person's every wish.

People who are on a spiritual quest don't think, they simply want results.

You've got to be a fool to want to stop the march of time.

People who are harder to love pose a challenge, and the challenge makes them easier to love. You're driven to love them. People who want their love easy don't really want love.

I hate having to wait. I've got the thing done. I just want to see what happens.

And just because someone doesn't understand doesn't mean they don't want to.

A wise man doesn't start what he doesn't know to do.

You will get what you want, but you have to expect it with your open heart.

It will be all right if it turns out all right.

There are seven emotions: joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate, and if a man does not give way to these he can be called patient.

Time sets all things right. Error lives but a day. Truth is eternal.

Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.