Quotes About Patience

Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.

I've been in love a couple times, but you never know if it's truly the one until you meet the right person.

I didn't get married until I was 38.

When I was very little, I insisted on getting my own pair of heels. And no, the screaming and tears didn't help me get them until I was much older!

No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Anyone who takes the Bible seriously agrees that God hates suffering. Jesus spent most of his time relieving it. But when being healed becomes the only goal - 'I'm not letting go until I get what I want' - it's a problem.

Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.

It's like, if you're on a ship, and you're sailing towards your destination, but the ship sinks: that doesn't mean that you have to sink. Just because the ship sinks doesn't mean you have to sink. You just figure it out until a raft comes along, and God will send you a raft. Or He'll send you another boat to get you to your destination.

May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world.

I've inherited a kind of... willfulness, a kind of quiet willfulness that I'll just hang in there with something until it happens.

Do your duty, that is best; leave unto the Lord the rest.

The Lord compensates the faithful for every loss. That which is taken away from those who love the Lord will be added unto them in his own way. While it may not come at the time we desire, the faithful will know that every tear today will eventually be returned a hundredfold with tears of rejoicing and gratitude.

I try to live with honor, even if it costs me millions of dollars and takes a long time. It's very unusual in Hollywood. Few people are trustworthy - a handshake means nothing to them. They feel they're required to keep an agreement with you only if you're successful or they need you.

I have accepted the fact that I don't work very quickly, that I have been rejected a lot as a writer, and that what I do is unusual, so I just have to accept the terms and that it's going to take longer. It is what it is.

One of the reasons this record took so long to come out is that we withstood a lot of pressures and we were unwilling to compromise on a lot of things. 'Tragic Kingdom' is a battleground. It was the outcome of three years of struggle.

I have been practicing archery for a long time; a bow and arrow helps me to unwind.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

My motto has always been, 'Never give up.'

I'm taking each day one day at a time, and building up my strength and endurance. It's crazy because it takes no time at all to lose everything you have and then so much time to gain it back.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

Things go up and down. If you can survive the down, it will come back.

At some point, you have worked so hard in your life and your tennis that you don't want to be too much up and down. You want to do what you have done and eventually get better.

When you have a new coach, a couple new guys, and a young team, the frustrating part throughout the year is the up and down.