Quotes About Patience

There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.

He who knows how to be aggressive, and yet remains patient, becomes a receptacle for all of Nature's lessons.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

Let nature take its course and your tools will strike at the right moment.

Nature won't be summoned to order and won't be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.

No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do they put their heads above the ground.

Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors [and then] retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper.

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.

Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.

We cannot teach a flower how to grow, we can only learn from it.

Wherever I go I need a period of incubation so that I may learn the essence of nature, which never wishes to be understood or yield herself.

Souls do not wish to be bullied, but gently brought back; such is the nature of man.

Always remember that Nature refuses to be rushed. She can only be made to evolve and that takes time, so take heart.

The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.

Nature's instructions are always slow; those of men are generally premature.

Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her outer courts.

And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow.

You're exactly where you're meant to be, meandering along a crooked path.

Don't ask God to change the laws of nature for you.

Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.

To create a little flower is the labour of ages.

Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.

To look at any thing, If you would know that thing, You must look at it long.

Active valour may often be the present of nature; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline.