Quotes About Patience

A lot of you want me to hurry through the introduction. That's because you're so much older you don't want to waste a minute of your life.

Even more exasperating than the guy who thinks he knows it all is the one who really does.

You decide you'll wait for your pitch. Then as the ball starts toward the plate, you think about your stance. And then you think about your swing. And then you realize that the ball that went past you for a strike was your pitch.

You can't make souffle rise twice.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.

Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities; they will never come.

When things come to the worst, they generally mend.

Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

Not all speed is movement.

I can count the number of dates I've had on one hand. I wish that guys would approach me, but they don't.

The whole art of life is knowing the right time to say things.

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

Keep a thing seven years and you will find a use for it.

He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.

To become a father is not hard, to be a father is, however.

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

The best way to bring up some children is short.

Never cut what you can untie.

Augustus Caesar

All things come round to him who will but wait.

When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer.

Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it.

If you want your ship to come in, you must build a dock.