Quotes About Patience

If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.

Casas entre bananeiras mulheres entre laranjeiras pomar amor cantar. Um homem vai devagar. Um cachorro vai devagar. Um burro vai devagar. Devagar... as janelas olham. Eta vida besta, meu Deus.

wondered, not for the first time, how exactly Snow White had managed to live with seven men without murdering at least one of them

I haven't got time for the pain.

The only person I ever wanted to meet was Muhammad Ali. And of all the people I've ever met, he's the one who most impressed me. It's tough to listen to him. You gotta have patience. But you see how strong his mind is. Even now, he's one of the most intelligent people on the planet.

If you don't have a valentine, hang out with your girlfriends, don't go looking for someone. When it's right, they'll come to you.

Entonces fue cuando empecé a darme cuenta de que se aguantan mucho mejor las contrariedades grandes que las pequeñas nimiedades de cada día.

El secreto de la felicidad está en no insistir (Gregorio Martínez Sierra).

Anda, déjame. Luego te haré caso. Cuando me despierte, si estoy dormida. O, si no, cuando me duerma. Pero no me hagas sombra en el libro ahora, no me rompas lo que estoy haciendo.

Every 'no' means you're one step closer to 'yes.

Humility is a difficult lesson.

We gardeners are healthy, joyous, natural creatures. We are practical, patient, optimistic. We declare our optimism every year, every season, with every act of planting.

You are speaking of something sacred, something holy. Love is patient and kind. It does not envy or boast. It casts out pride, selfishness and anger. It keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres and never fails.

We gather others to follow the good when our knowledge of the way is so strong that doubt can no longer invade our inner serenity; when we no longer feel any need to convince, contend with, or woo people; when we no longer try to employ giant steps or to skip steps in order to make swift progress; when we no longer try to achieve something without working for it.

the path is more important than the goal

The goal is to follow the path with patient, modest acceptance. Indeed, the goal is only to follow the path, for there is no "there" to get to; there is only the path, and the job of treading upon it as well as we can.

While she is still hospitalised, I take Emma out for strengthening walks, for her muscles and been under-used for a long time. She is sometimes breathless, I notice with concern, and there are other changes in her, either through a nerve her therapy touches, or through her illness, or both, which make her, quite often, disagreeable to be with.

I wonder-Did I peek through the veil impatiently, while you slowly forged the bonds that brought me to mortality? And do you now stand where I stodd yesterday, your cheeks against Heaven's curtain, and pray-Pray fervently for me to forge the bonds that bring us to eternity?

Like nature, like life. The storm will pass. The night will end. Spring will come.

Time heals all wounds or Time wounds all heels. Take your pick... oh, life's small choices.

Sometimes it has to feel worse before it feels better.

You can never see a plant grow, but they do.

If at first you don't fricassee, Fry, fry a hen!

No," said Father. "Just do the best you can and don't let it worry you. In that way you'll have a clear conscience and a tranquil heart.