Quotes About Patience

Beware of what you wish for in youth because you will get it in middle life.

He chronicled with patience what he saw, detaching himself from it and tasting its mortifying flavor in secret

O, not in the least tragic. I shall become gradually better, they tell me, as I grow older. As I did not die then they tell me I shall probably live.

Waiting rooms. Ye go into this room where ye wait. Hoping's the same. One of these days the cunts'll build entire fucking buildings just for that. Official hoping rooms, where ye just go in and hope for whatever the fuck ye feel like hoping for.

As I was to learn, patience and latitude and even humility are, paradoxically, the handmaidens of wealth, because virtue is costly only for those who own nothing else.

My experience with age it instills a degree of patience in some, leaves the virtuous spiritually unchanged, feeds the character defects in others, and brings little wisdom to any of us.

what do you say to people who are doing their best when their best is not enough?

Don't borrow trouble.

But a line sergeant told me something I never forgot. 'Don't think about it before it happens, and don't think about it when it's over.

Want to talk later? After

But nobody was really desperate.

If we haven't got time to pray to The Lord for help then we haven't got much time at all do we?

Book knew, however, that God provided. It might not always seem as though He did. Indeed, to the untrained eye it sometimes looked as though the Lord's methods were just plain berserk. But in the end, all said and done, He always came through. It was a cornerstone of Book's belief, the rock he had rebuilt his life upon.

We'll get this sorted out," Galen said, trying to sound optimistic. "You're not through with us yet.

There's an African proverb that advises, "Never test the depth of the water with both feet.

Don't be afraid to fail. Persevere through mistakes and struggles. Stay focused, patient, confident, and smart and you'll have a better chance of making money.

Nor do I try to keep a garden, only An avocado in a glass of water -- Roots pallid, gemmed with air. And later, When the small gilt leaves have grown Fleshy and green, I let them die, yes, yes, And start another. I am earth's no less.

The stars are always shining...even when you can't see them.

Tomato peelin' start late this year. Meanwhiles we got to eat.

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries

It can't rain all the time.

Gardening is not outcome-oriented. A successful harvest is not the end of a gardener's existence, but only a phase of it. As any gardener knows, the vitality of a garden does not end with a harvest. It simply takes another form. Gardens do not die in the winter but quietly prepare for another season.

If you love something let it go.. if it comes back its yours

Fang: When do I get out of here? Max: They say a week. Fang: So, like, tomorrow? Max: That's what I'm thinking.