Quotes About Patience

Would you stay out of my head? Wait until you're invited." If I waited for an invitation from you, little red hair, I would be centuries old before it ever came about.

He could hurry everything else in his life, but he was never going to make the mistake of hurrying his time with Grace. She was too important and everything else could take a backseat.

It's often said that writers sometimes need to go around the block a few times to get where they're going.

Accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope—Martin Luther King Jr.

Leave the thought, it will surface when it's ready

That way if they were disappointed or disgusted with her, she'd only have to live with that reaction for a couple of months.

Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience.

When Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that 'he may tarry,' we see the origin of every Jewish shrug from Spinoza to Woody Allen.

Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things are boring, to run the risk of repeating an old argument just one more time, or of going one more round with a hostile or (much worse) indifferent audience.

If you Iive long enough, if you don't fall in love too easily, and if you keep your hatred pure– wonderful things can happen.

Like a long train which stops at every dingy little station, the winter dragged slowly past.

Charlotte, meanwhile, has peeked into the oven and then closed its door again, announcing, 'twenty more minutes' with the absolute confidence of a great chef, which by God she isn't.

It's better to get things right than to get them fast.

Forbid me not to weep; he was my father; And, had you lov'd him half so well as I, You could not bear his death thus patiently.

That's the scary thing about hope, she said. If you let it go too long it turns into faith.

It's like time travel only, you know, slower...

Sometimes, a man must muster all of his courage simply to sit still. How much humanity has been spoiled for the confusion of movement with progress, my friend? How much?

You don't hurry a thinker, and you don't talk to him when he's thinking. It's just inconsiderate.

The first pancake is why you have a dog, so you have someone to give it to who appreciate it.

Joshua could hear stirring inside of the stable master's house and a voice calling for him to hold his horses, which is what stable masters always say when they make you wait.

but all things considered, he could go a very long time not being run over by a Volvo again and feel just dandy about it. He

The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true.

Misfoutune always comes to those who wait. The trick is to find happiness in the breif gaps between distaters.

What will happen will happen and I won't waste my time worrying.