Quotes About Patience

I believe managing is like holding a dove in your hand. If you hold it too tightly you kill it, but if you hold it too loosely, you lose it.

To silence another, first be silent yourself.

He fishes well who uses a golden hook.

A bird's song is beautiful, but if it never stops you feel like shooting it.

I know God can't answer every prayers exactly the way you want Him to. But I couldn't help thinking that He hadn't been doing very well by me lately. Even so, I prayed. It wasn't a proper prayer, just a cry for help, but I felt He was listening.

Watching my grandfather work taught me that not everything was fluid. There were certain things that you hit from different angles, but you never gave up on. You did the work that was needed, wherever that work took you.

Even if things didn't always go the way they should, sometimes they went exactly where they needed to.

You have to grow about eight hundred grapes to get just one bottle of wine. If that isn't an argument to finish the bottle, I don't know what is. —Anonymous

Given enough time and distance, the heart will always heal.

She expected it. You can dodge the first devil that can sabotage your efforts by making sure you ask, not expect.

Listening is about curiosity and patience—about asking the right questions in the right way." You simply cannot begin to even think of asking for anything and expect really great results unless you have practiced the art of active listening.

Ese día aprendí dos cosas: que uno siempre debe escuchar a sus mayores y que cabrear a un oso no es buena idea.

La vida es como trabajar en el huerto: es necesario esperar el tiempo justo para recoger el fruto apropiado.

Trying to read slowly when you haven't had time to read is like holding back hunger. It's like having a meal in front of you and knowing you should be polite and use a fork, when all you really want to do is lean over and shovel it in with both hands.

He (Thomas Smith) believed with complete conviction that no animal was permanently ruined. Every horse could be improved. He lived by a single maxim: 'Learn your horse. Each one is an individual, and once you penetrate his mind and heart, you can often work wonders with an otherwise intractable beast.

Seabiscuit took to stomping and bellowing for food day and night. His moans rang off the barn walls and worked on everyone's nerves, but no one gave in. "The whole ranch became centered on the job," Howard said. "Even the pigs quit grunting at him and the chickens kept out of his way.

We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.

If my response seems slow when asked a question, I always explain: 'It is because I have numerous files and subfiles to sort through in order to retrieve the info . . . please stand by. Help . . . my computer needs more memory!

Maybe, I think, when you've waited a long time to see something, you need to find your way to it in glimpses.

The last hour waiting patiently on a tray for her somewhere in the future. The spoon slipping quietly into the beautiful soup.

I'm still going on bad dates, when by now I should be in a bad marriage.

Model calm behavior, no matter how upset you feel.

It's time love," he murmured, nuzzling her throat, kissing her ear. "I've waited so long. I can't wait any longer have you.

My mama told me from the time I was a little girl not to go chasin' after boys." She paused and gave him a wry smile. "I just wasn't very good at listenin'.