Quotes About Patience

The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow.

Keep a thing seven years and it's bound to come in handy.

I want to live each day for itself like a string of colored beads, and not kill the present by cutting it up in cruel little snippets to fit some desperate architectural draft for a taj mahal in the future.

No man is quick enough to enjoy life to the full.

You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.

Drive now. Text later.

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer.

When you get to your wits' end, you will find that God lives there.

Let love's apologies wait not 'til death's doorway.

Please be patient. God has not finished with me yet.

Here's to the Clock! Whose hands, we pray heaven, When we come home at three, Have stopped at eleven!

A good dentist never gets on your nerves.

I've felt for the first time in my life the joyful consciousness that I am truly loved by a truly good man, one that with all my heart I can love and honor... one who loves me for myself alone, and with an unselfish, patient, gentle affection such as I never thought to waken in a human heart... a man in whom I can trust without fear, in whose principles I have perfect faith, in whose large, warm, loving heart my own restless soul can find repose.

If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job.

When all else fails, pray for a fire drill.

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

Do not fall before you are pushed.

Heatherlegh is the dearest doctor that ever was, and his invariable prescription to all his patients is, "lie low, go slow, and keep cool."

Wish for nothing so much that you forget to make it come true.

A bad day woodworking is better than a good day working.

Good workmen never quarrel with their tools...

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

My attitude is one movie at a time. I don't want to get ahead of myself.

I've always had that attitude that things happen for a reason.