Quotes About Patience

Small things were important. Secods were small things, and if you heaped enough of those on top of one another, they became a man's life.

Don't have a cow, man.

It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.

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 hiom.

The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.

The fool strikes. The wise man smiles, and watches, and learns. Then strikes.

Beware of the fury of the patient man.

Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.

A foolish man is always doing, Yet much remains to be done.

The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man.

Denzel has been that leading man, but it took him a while to get to Training Day and Hurricane Carter.

A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.

A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious.

Life is tough, man. No one is spared from obstacles and trials, but there is such a beautiful plan for each of us. Just gotta let it happen.

No good writer was ever long neglected; no great man overlooked by men equally great. Impatience is a proof of inferior strength, and a destroyer of what little there may be.

Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.

Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

Look what I'm dealing with, man, I'm dealing with fools and trolls.

We cannot go after thousands of men until we learn how to win one.

Men are like parking spaces: all the good ones are taken, and the available ones are handicapped.

The superior man sets his person at rest before he moves; he composes his mind before he speaks.

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavour to understand him.

Men of great genius and large heart sow the seeds of a new degree of progress in the world, but they bear fruit only after many years.

I have very little faith that I'll ever find someone. I've had some bad luck and I've made some bad choices - not in men, but in how I've chosen to deal with relationships.