Quotes About Patience

Starting a new novel is a little like starting a new relationship -- you have to be prepared to commit for at least three years and put up with the domestic tedium as well as the emotional highs!

Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.

Someday you will understand that life can't flow as you always planned.

To tolerate is to insult.

Moreover, there is so much more that needs to be said; but book writing is like picture painting in this regard: it can never be "done," never "perfected." One must simply find a good stopping place, and I pray that I have chosen such a place to stop working on this particular project.

I have to warn you. I promised my mother, a long time ago. She said I had to give folks a chance to walk away.

I had a teacher once, grade school somewhere. Philippines, I think, because she always wore a big white hat. So it was somewhere hot. I was always twice the size of the other kids, and she used to say to me: count to ten before you get mad, Reacher. And I've counted way past ten on this one. Way past.

The best fights are the ones you don't have", a wise man once said to me.

She wasn't looking for a man that nobly beat his chest and proclaimed, "I would die for you!", in fact, she wasn't looking for anyone. She was content in waiting for a man that said, "l will live for you", then proved it. One is a once in a lifetime event. The other is a lifetime event

I'll see if we're done with your truck and get you a ride home if we are.

I know I look like I'd rather be outside surfing, or climbing a mountain, or running a marathon than sitting here with you, but don't be fooled. I'm as serious about my job as you are about yours," he said. "I'm only asking for another thirty minutes today. What's the big rush?

Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn't formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them.

It's better to be silent than to be a fool.

In prosperity we need moderation; in adversity, patience

The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.

It's a good thing God doesn't let you look a year or two into the future, or you might be sorely tempted to shoot yourself. But He's a charitable Lord: He only lets you see one day at a time. When times get tough, there's no choice except to take a deep breath, carry on, and do the best you can.

It's a good thing god doesn't let you look a year or two into the future, or you might be sorely tempted to shoot yourself.

I always kept in mind my father's warning: "If he's bigger than you are, don't fight back. Use your head instead of your fists.

It looks bad right now, but remember, this too shall pass.

It's a good thing God doesn't let you look a year or two into the future, or you might be sorely tempted to shoot yourself. But He's a charitable Lord: He only lets you see one day at a time.

It's a good thing God doesn't let you look a year or two into the future, or you might be sorely tempted to shoot yourself.

I do not want to sound like a hawk or a dove. If I have to choose a metaphor from the aviary, I would like to think of the owl.

Etsuko held the watch case in her hands and wondered how they'd stayed together with him not giving up and her not giving in.

For the first week, I stood in front of that little thing on the sidewalk and wanted to punch anybody that stepped on it.