Quotes About Patience

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

It doesn't matter how slowly you go so long as you don't stop.

A Journey of a thousand miles becomes with a single step.

It is only when the cold season comes that we know the pine and cypress to be evergreens.

When anger arises, think of the consequences

Mike knows the market is crazy, but it will come back," Wynn continued. "But the people who run money panic, they want to get out, so they start selling everything—and Mike will make a bid. Then he sits there. And when it does come back, he makes out.

Say you're in the middle of nowhere, nobody for miles and no hope of rescue. You sit down and start playing solitaire and somebody will immediately come along and tell you to play the red eight on the black nine.

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them." —ANTOINE DE SAINT EXUPÉRY, The Little Prince If

You could be the ugliest, nastiest most miserable piece of shit known to man, but if you had a beating heart there was always a chance you'd turn into a diamond after a million years.

Have Ithaka always in your mind. Your arrival there is what you are destined for. But don't in the least hurry the journey.

When Good Friday comes, these are the moments in life when we feel there's no hope. But then, Easter comes.

My daddy used to tell me not to chew on something that was eatin you.

He didn't say a lot so I tend to remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a lot of patience with havin to say things twice so I learned to listen the first time.

In a pocket of his knapsack he'd found a last half packet of cocoa and he fixed it for the boy and then poured his own cup with hot water and sat blowing at the rim. You promised not to do that, the boy said. What? You know what, Papa. He poured the hot water back into the pan and took the boy's cup and poured some of the cocoa into his own and then handed it back. I have to watch you all the time, the boy said.

I think sometimes people would rather have a bad answer about things than no answer at all.

I agreed with him that there wasnt a whole lot good you could say about old age and he said he knew one thing and I said what is that. And he said it dont last long. I waited for him to smile but he didnt.

Wrinkle not thy sable brow at me, my friend. All will be known to you at last. To you as to every man.

You'd think a man that had waited eighty some odd years on God to come into his life, well, you'd think he'd come. If he didnt you'd still have to figure that he knew what he was doin. I don't know what other description of God you could have. So what you end up with is that those he has spoke to are the ones that must of needed it the worst. That's not a easy thing to accept.

Can't stop what's coming. Ain't no waiting on you. That's vanity.

What the Squire has never understood is that forgiveness has a time limit. While it's never too late for revenge.

He said that most men were in their lives like the carpenter whose work went so slowly for the dullness of his tools that he had not time to sharpen them. Y

If you knew there was somebody out there afoot that had two million dollars of your money, at what point would you quit lookin for em? That's right. There aint no such a point.

The wisdom of the journeyman is to work one day at a time and he always said that any job even if it took years was made up out of a day's work. Nothing more. Nothing less. That was hard for me to learn. I always wanted to be finished. In the concept of a day's work is rythme and pace and wholeness.

People are always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.