Quotes About Patience

Mediocre people often have a tinge of religion about them, but it is only a tinge. They take their religion as it comes. They may pray and worship more or less regularly, and they usually stay clear of publicly disgraceful crimes, but they are lukewarm, colorless. Seldom or never do they read a serious book about prayer or study to learn more about God and His plans, to discover how to be humble and chaste and patient. They are always too busy for the one thing necessary.

I feel like I've got a novel in me somewhere, but that's something... I was just talking to a buddy of mine about it, who's a writer as well, and he's nearly done with his first novel, and it's taken him 11, 12 years to do it. And I can totally understand; it's a long process.

For a long, long time, nearly 40 years, I never had any bees. I can't think why.

The quickest way may not necessarily be the best.

You know, I'm glad that what I want doesn't necessarily always come true.

Time is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.

Some people have loved ones they will not forsake, even though they are a pain in the neck.

The first two days that I rode a horse, I had someone controlling it with a rope around its neck.

I think faith helps me a lot. God wants you to be where He wants you to be, and that's where I want to be. If I do not get a part, I understand that maybe I needed to be home at that time, maybe in school; there's always a reason. My faith is also where my core friends are, at my church, a faith-based friendship.

If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of work.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

No one is immune to needing to sit or needing to go down at the right time, and you want to give guys a chance.

With negotiations, you never know what's going to happen.

My neighbor is now an 18-wheeler who comes by here 1,000 times a day.

The longer the game went on, you got the feeling that neither side really wanted to lose.

Never give up on anybody.

Football is like that: you never know when things will change, so you can never give up.

I never give up on things.

Never say never, but I won't kiss just for the heck of it.

I want to see success right away. And I want to never give up, never stop.

In football you should never take anything for granted.

I spent six years after my first novel and five years after my second without getting into a new book.

I usually wait for opportunities and act on them if I like them or I like to really think through any new ideas I have.

Bad performances can happen and are not that serious - even with new players. You can't, say, sell him, get a new one.