Quotes About Patience

Trust can be a hard lesson; hope still more difficult.

Some broken things you can't mend. Some you have to put together very slowly piece by fragile piece, waiting until the last bit of work is strong enough before you try the next. It takes a lot of patience.

With respect, said Red, and his voice had gone so quiet people hushed each other to hear him, my tale is yet unfinished; you should hear me out. And it is her answer I have come to hear, not yours.

Goodbye Curly. I'll see you next summer. Keep out of trouble, now, until I come back.

Step by small step; that was the only way I'd survive my time of penance. My lesson in patience. Or whatever it was.

I worked as fast as I could, and let my mind travel ahead only a certain distance, no further.

It is no wonder women have a reputation for patience which is not shared by men. We spend so much of our time waiting. Waiting for a child to be born. Waiting for a man to come home, from the fields, from the sea, from battle. Waiting endlessly for news. That can be the worst, as fear bites deep at the vitals, and seizes the heart with chill fingers. The mind can make strange and horrible pictures, while you are waiting.

Hard to choose. Wait, and let the bad things go on. Act, and maybe waste your chance anyway, because the timing's wrong. The best plan in the world can fall apart.

Cixi's style was not to force through drastic change, but to bring it about gradually through perseverence.

You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can.

I guess it's true what they say: if you wait long enough everything changes.

Ana Iris once asked me if I loved him and I told her about the lights in my old home in the capital, how they flickered and you never knew if they would go out or not. You put down your things and you waited and couldn't do anything really until the lights decided. This, I told her, is how I feel.

Festina lente. You know what that means? Hurry slowly. Bene. He smiled. -A Good & Happy Child

It is still this moment and that will be true of every moment that follows, assuming this moment ever ends, which, if I am lucky, it won't.

Patience itself was not necessarily defeat. Rather defeat really began when patience was thought to be defeat

You can't force yourself into something you can't understand, you know.

Grea era aÅŸteptarea! Timpul p?rea strans în nesfarÅŸite cute adanci, ca niÅŸte foaie. Dac? nu se oprea la fiecare cut?, erau tot soiul de b?nuieli, fiecare cu arma ei. ÎÅ£i trebuia un efort teribil ca s? mergi înainte, f?candu-te c? nu le crezi ÅŸi dandu-le la o parte. În fine, dup? ce aÅŸteptase toat? noaptea, venir? zorile. DimineaÅ£a radea de el, lipindu-ÅŸi faÅ£a, ca burta unui melc, de geamul ferestrei.

Timpului nu-i dai pinteni ca unui cal.

Iš ties?, darbas padeda žmogui susitaikyti su b?gan?iu laiku, net kai jis slenka tuš?iai.

Waiting was a bore. With work one understands one's own effort is everything, but in waiting one can't use one's own strength.

Time cannot be spurred on like a horse. Bu it is not quite so slow as a pushcart.

Slowly slowly O mind... Everything in own pace happens, Gardner may water a hundred buckets... Fruit arrives only in its season.

Faith,Waiting in the heart of a seed, Promises a miracle of life which cannot prove at once.

Evinden ç?kman gerekmez. Masandan kalkma ve dinle. Hatta dinleme, yaln?zca bekle. Hatta bekleme bile, tamamen sessiz ve yaln?z ol. Dünya, maskesini düÅŸüresin diye, gelip kendini sunacakt?r sana, baÅŸka türlü olamaz; kendinden geçmiÅŸ bir halde k?vranacakt?r önünde.