Quotes About Patience

We have food all around us all the time, and if we haven't eaten for three hours, we think we're starving. You're not starving - human beings can go for 30 days without food.

My father's favorite poem was probably 'Love is patient, love is kind.' It's simply stated but pretty profound. That's how my dad wrote.

The thing to do with mutual funds is to buy a couple of decent ones, set up an investment plan and then never, ever think about them again, except maybe once a quarter or so when you take a peek at your statements to make sure that you have not accidentally been buying the Fidelity Peace-in-the-Middle-East fund.

At different times in my life, I've made grand statements like, 'I want these many kids, and I want them by this age.' I think, with every year that goes by, I accept that I don't know when it's going to happen or how it's going to happen. I'll just take it one day at a time, and when I'm ready, I'll be ready. It'll reveal itself, I guess.

I always say if I'm not good at something it's just because I've not had time to focus on it... it's just uncrafted, like a slab of rock that contains the statue of David within it.

Checking email every 45 seconds is not only compulsive, it's presumptuous. It suggests a belief that anyone who sends us a message needs us to read it immediately, even if the message is from SkyMall telling us our Bigfoot Garden Yeti statue has shipped.

I am happy with what comes, I don't have expectations of any stature.

Celebrity status for me came slowly. I wasn't an overnight sensation. I had time to prepare emotionally.

I never feel insecure about my career because I believed that in some way or other, good things come to you. This might be the only reason that I never take pride in stardom or a celebrity status.

It's impossible to always move forward, but sometimes even maintaining the status quo is enough.

It's not how fast you get there, but how long you stay.

Bad days don't always stay.

I don't give up. I'm a plodder. People come and go, but I stay the course.

I can't stay No. 1 for fifty years, you know. We'll see what happens.

There may be a long list of things to do, but really, there is just one thing on the list at any time. If you think of it like that, the whole world looks different and you can stay quite calm. Maybe everything will get done eventually and maybe not. You can always have hope.

Even if sometimes I'm not happy with the way I'm playing the game before, during the changeover I have to stay calm. Otherwise the next game will be worse.

There are difficult matches from time to time, and that is absolutely normal. You have to stay calm and confident after them.

It costs me a lot to stay calm during a game.

From my dad I learnt that it is very important to stay calm.

Sometimes things might not go as you want them to, but you have to stay focused and fully concentrated.

That's the hardest part of the game. You've got to stay focused. With golf, make a mistake and you get another shot straight away; but with snooker you could be five minutes before you get another chance.

I think it's important for a young musician to stick with a band for a while and really work with a band and stay focused.

I wasn't going to be able to re-grow my ACL back overnight. I was where I was with this and I just had to accept it. I had to stay focused on getting back. Honestly, I kind of felt in a weird way lucky because it was 12 years into my career that this happened.

The key is to stay level headed. Not get too high with the highs. At the same time, you need to stay strong when things aren't going your way.