Quotes About Patience

I don't know if I'd want to be a Secret Service agent. In the movies, it's exciting and romantic and all that. Really, most of their job is standing in a hallway for 12 hours making sure somebody doesn't come through a doorway off of a stairwell.

Six years is a long time. To leave the fans with their hands in the air and to come back six years later, and the people still have their hands in the air, that's nothing but God. I'm standing in a position that's so humbling.

As a keeper, you have more time, and you do hear more from the stands.

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

I am no longer 20 or 21 years old, so I cannot afford to sit around waiting for my chance. I am 29 years old, and I want to play, play, and play. I am not crazy; I don't want to sit in the stands.

Everyone says I should really savour the last year, play as much as possible, really soak everything in. I'd most like to sit on the bench, or, even better, in the stands.

Never try to leap from a standstill.

The Invisible Man, who said to his wife, I don't care if it looks silly, don't stop! Never got a dinner!

My old man is a man of few words.

One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is to mind your own business. Nothing is more suspicious, in a man who seems holy, than an impatient desire to reform other men.

My wife called me a mule. She once said, "I didn't marry a man; I married a mule!" I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.

All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.

It takes a great man to make a great listener

The best fights are the ones you don't have", a wise man once said to me.

You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside.

The superior man is quiet and calm, waiting for the appointments of heaven, while the mean man walks in dangerous paths, looking for lucky occurrences.

There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.

All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.

Think on this doctrine, - that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake; that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it.

A man is not learned because he talks much; he who is patient, free from hatred and fear, he is called learned.

Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.

God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands.

Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.

The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forebearance among men.