Quotes About Patience

If at first you don't succeed, have a beer.

I used to think the Lord's Prayer was a short prayer; but as I live longer, and see more of life, I begin to believe there is no such thing as getting through it. If a man, in praying that prayer, were to be stopped by every word until he had thoroughly prayed it, it would take him a lifetime.

Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day.

Tomorrow always comes, and today is never yesterday.

You can shake your head but don't break your neck.

You must lose time to have time.

Water does not cross over holes; it must first fill the hole before it can move on.

A lot of small potatoes makes a big load.

I have neither the time nor the crayons to explain this to you.

Dear 2020: Could you please stop trying to kill us for, like, five minutes?!

2020 is quicksand— Keep calm and try to make it out alive.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Try, above all things to be still and to contain yourself. You always want to rush into action. Realise that a certain kind of stillness is the most perfect form of action, like a seed can wait. One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not be a mere rushing on.

Bad is never good until worse happens.

When life gives you lemons, please, just don't squirt them in other people's eyes.

Don't trouble trouble 'til trouble troubles you.

For only thus, living each moment separately and looking neither forward nor back, could such a life be borne and a man keep himself alive in hope of better days.

Ne ruši sve mostove, možda ?eš se vratiti. Nisi ptica ni leptir obalom što leti, kad nema mostova uzalud je ?eznuti, uzalud je shvatiti, uzalud je htjeti. Ne ruši sve mostove, možda ?eš se vratiti. Ostavi bar jedan most izme?u srca i mene, u samo?i je lakše neshva?eno shvatiti, mogle bi te nazad nagnati uspomene.

Ovih dana sam mnogo ?itao i mnogo razgovarao sa ljudima - više nego što je zdravo i dobro za mene - a nauk koji se može izvu?i iz svega toga uvek je isti. Iznutra treba rasti, ?utke i neprimetno napredovati, i u pravi ?as se zaustaviti. Sve drugo zna?i: sam sebi plesti zamku, spremati svoj sopstveni pad.

u krvi im je saznanje da se pravi život sastoji od samih zatišja i da bi ludo i uzaludno bilo mutiti ta retka zatišja, traže?i neki drugi, ?vrš?i i stalniji život koga nema.

Treba izdržati do kraja sa osmehom stjuardese koja zna da na avionu nešto nije u redu.

Jer jedino tako, žive?i svaki trenutak odvojeno i ne gledaju?i ni napred ni natrag, može se ovakav život podneti i živ ?ovek sa?uvati za bolje dane.

Preda mnom je no? bez sna, nedogledna, jarosna, ubila?ka pustinja. ?ini mi se da je živo bi?e ne?e preživetini videti joj kraja. A meni valja živeti i ?ekati. Živeti sa nadom, u ?ekanju. Pa i bez nade.

Nešto od ljudske istine ostane uvek za one koji ih strpljivo slušaju ili ?itaju.