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Quotes About Patience

Vendrá si trabajamos por ella, y que vale la pena trabajar hasta en la oscuridad y en la pobreza.
~ Virginia Woolf
y se vio a sí misma saliendo hacia la fiesta, y al pensar en este aspecto de la naturaleza humana, con su paciencia y su capacidad de sufrimiento y de encontrar satisfacción en placeres tan nimios, exiguos y sórdidos, se le llenaron los ojos de lágrimas.
~ Virginia Woolf
Querer tornar felizes os filhos, antes do tempo, é talvez uma imprudência
~ VITOR HUGO
Dear Jesus, do something.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I appeal to parents: never, never say, Hurry up, to a child. (62)
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Easy, you know, does it, son.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Finally it gave up- as some day life will give up- bothering me.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Well, you haven't kissed me yet, have you
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I did not rush up to her room with cries. I always preferred the mental hygiene of noninterference.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
there's no unemployment in the workplace of God. And no discrimination of any kind. You say yes to Him, He'll use you. You say no, and He'll find somebody else to do it—after giving you a jillion chances to say yes. He's persistent. And patient.
~ Vonette Bright
Contentment should be the hallmark of my life, as I put my affairs in the hands of God.
~ W. Phillip Keller
The arrow is off the string but does not fly straight to the target, nor does the target stand where it is. Calculation, which is miscalculation, sets in….
~ W. Timothy Gallwey
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.
~ W.C. Fields
I learnt that the only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it, even if in the beginning you think you can't do it at all. 
~ Langston Hughes
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?
~ Langston Hughes
Today like yesterday Tomorrow like today; The drip, drip, drip, Of monotony Is wearing my life away; Today like yesterday, Tomorrow like today.
~ Langston Hughes
Once, when I were a child, I were kicked by a small mule. Neither the mule nor I had any sense. I were trying to make the mule go one way, but the mule was trying to make me go another. I were for hitching the mule onto a plow. The mule were for nibbling grass. So, after that kicking, I learned right then and there to respect animals and peoples when they are not of the same mind as you are.
~ Langston Hughes
I learnt that the only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it, even if in the beginning you think you can't do it at all.
~ Langston Hughes
I am so tired of waiting. Aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind ?
~ Langston Hughes
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over— like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?
~ Langston Hughes
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.
~ Langston Hughes
Harlem What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?
~ Langston Hughes
When you knit, if you get something wrong and keep knitting, then when you discover it, you have to rip out all those rows of stitching to go back and fix it, Life is like that. Sometimes, it has to rip out all the stitches to go back and fix what's wrong.
~ Lani Diane Rich
For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance.
~ Lao Tzu