Quotes About Patience

But to do things right, they ought to learn to keep silent in the absence of news of significance.

Plenty of mildly good news is preferable to one single lump of great news.

It is better to lump all your pain into a brief period rather than have it spread

It is better to lump all your pain into a brief period rather than have it spread out over a longer one.

Being an executive does not require very developed frontal lobes, but rather a combination of charisma, a capacity to sustain boredom, and the ability to shallowly perform on harrying schedules. Add to these tasks the "duty" of attending opera performances. The

withhold judgment in the absence of evidence

You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.

Um peru é alimentado durante mil dias por um açougueiro; cada dia

because it requires a combination of belief, a capacity for delayed gratification

It is hard to stick to a good discipline of mental write-off when things are going well, yet that's when one needs the discipline the most.

Missing a train is only painful if you run after it!

He could sustain the pain if he saw only weekly performance numbers, instead of updates every minute.

I'll be patient. I can't even count the number of times I've had to be patient when it comes to you. With every passing year, one's store of patience inevitably grows. It's the only resource that grows. All the others tend to wither.

You got to take what comes. We just go along, like everybody else, one day at a time.

She had wanted to cough as soon as it occurred to her that she mustn't, and she passed a long hour trying to swallow away the tickle that perversely constricted her throat.

Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short, she said calmly. You got to take what comes. We just go along, like everybody else, one day at a time.

Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short," she said calmly. "You got to take what comes. We just go along, like everybody else, one day at a time.

Sometimes that's all you can do. Hope.

I, for one, don't forget a thing. I just sit around waiting for something worse.

Every time I want to give up on him, there's always something inside telling me to just give it time.

There's a lot of work, a lot of writing, to be done, and there's no telling when the results will begin to show. But if Atlas Shrugged sells 50,000 copies, this culture's cooked.

However, to think of stimulating the mind of the child usually requires a higher level of consciousness (and of patience) of the parent than does the practice of handing down ready-made solutions. Impatience is often the enemy of good parenting.

And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.

for when a man's spirit has been thoroughly crushed, he may be peevish at small offenses, but never resentful of great ones.