Quotes About Patience

A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its destined reader, come when he may, with eager hand and seeing eye. Then occurs one of the great examples of union, that of a man with a book, pleasurable, sometimes fruitful, potentially world-changing, simple; and in a public library...without cost to the reader.

If you don't like it, alter it, and if you can't alter it, put up with it.

Patience! Patience! The world is a vast and ghastly intricacy of mechanism, and one has to be very wary, not to get mangled by it.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

I am waiting for my case to come up and I am waiting for a rebirth of wonder and I am waiting for someone to really discover America and wail

El tiempo que transcurre sin hacer nada ofensivo se acumula en el crédito del defensor».

Kutuzov told Prince Andrei that "time and patience are the strongest warriors.

The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.

I had learned that there were times when fighting was impossible, when the best thing to do was to wait and to learn.

In the absence of an audience, I will write down my story so that it waits like a restful beast with lungs breathing and heart beating.

Making a left turn in L.A. is one of the harder things you're going to learn in life.

There's nothing you can do about where the pieces are," he'd say. "It's only your next move that matters.

Steve once told me that the gestation of great products takes much longer than it appears. What seems to emerge from nowhere belies a long process of development, trials, and missteps.

Early in my career I had learned the wisdom of not gripping over the hand I was dealt. I had a mentor who taught me lessons about business and life that served me for years. He looked at business the way a grand master might look at a chessboard. There's nothing you can do about where the pieces are. It's only your next move that matters.

The game's not over until it's over.

Calm down, you'll live longer.

If you're in a hole, don't dig, they say.

Despair speaks evenly, in a quiet voice.

To hear, one must be silent.

One must work with time and not against it.

Of course, I'd like to produce and direct a blockbuster, but you gotta build up to that. So now I'm learning from a bunch of little movies. And it's more fun with smaller pictures. It's more creative.

Locked up eighteen years, without even a television set or a newspaper. Needlework might seem pretty important if it was all you could do.

Whatever life lessons we can glean from having read, perhaps being middle of a book is what really counts as living.

When you're young you have to invent tasks to fill the time, while I can kill an hour just making myself some tea. She