Quotes About Patience

Sometimes while you wait for what you think is better," Philomene said, "what is good enough slips away.

They's a time for sitting still and praying the wind blow over you, and they's a time to rise up and face the storm.

Sometimes while you wait for what you think is better," Philomene said, "what is good enough slips away.

Wait long enough and you reap what you sow. That hold for men. That hold for towns. That hold for a whole country.

Time partially reconciles us to anything. I gradually became content--doggedly contented, as wild animals in cages.

The lord is wonderfully good to those who wait for him and seek him.N.B. From this quote is derived the proverb, Good things come to those who wait.

Slowly, after dozens of rejection slips and failures and false starts and postponed dreams--what Langston Hughes called dreams deferred--I stepped onto the hallowed ground of being a published novelist, and then, fifteen years later, I started to make real money.

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come.

A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.

The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.

In my older age, I've learned to take things slower, because I used to be that total-fall-in-love-after-a-day guy.

You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed.

Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction; before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed.

Looks like what drives me crazy Don't have no effect on you-- But I'm gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too.

I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.

Life is a egg you have to be patient and carefull with it or it will brake

What happens to a dream deferred?

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, and then throw it in the face of the person who gave you the lemons until they give you the oranges you originally asked for.

I grew on you, though," Jace stated confidently. "Eventually," Alec agreed. "Like moss, or a skin disease.

Being Jem, Tessa reflected, must be a great deal like being the owner of a thouroughbred dog that liked to bite your guests. You had to have a hand on his collar constantly.

I don't like keeping her in the dark," Jace said. "We'll tell her in a week. What difference does a week make?" Jace gave him a look. "Two weeks ago you were dead." "Well, I wasn't suggesting two weeks," said Sebastian. "That would be insane.

Love is not always a lightning bolt. Sometimes it is a creeping vine. It grows slowly until suddenly it is all that there is in the world.

Life is short, and wisdom long to learn.

What happened to you?" Jace looked affronted. "What happened to me?" Alec shook him, not lightly. "You said you were going for a walk! What kind of walk takes six hours?" "A long one?" Jace suggested.