Quotes About Patience

Never say, "I tried it once and it did not work."

What you newspaper and magazine writers, who work in rabbit time, don't understand is that the practice of architecture has to be measured in elephant time.

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

All good work is done the way ants do things: Little by little.

Patience is also a form of action.

We all have the temptation to be backseat drivers when it comes to decisions that don't work out the way we want.

Success is not something to wait for, it is something to work for.

When God delays in fulfilling our little thoughts, it is to have Himself room to work out His great ones.

In summary, all great work is the fruit of patience and perseverance, combined with tenacious concentration on a subject over a period of months or years.

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

No great work of art is ever finished.

Gradualness, gradualness, and gradualness. From the very beginning of your work, school yourself to severe gradualness in the accumulation of knowledge.

The renewal of our natures is a work of great importance. It is not to be done in a day. We have not only a new house to build up, but an old one to pull down.

If you do the work you get rewarded. There are no shortcuts in life.

Hard work does not guarantee success, but no work guarantees failure.

Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.

It is said that good things come to those who wait. I believe that good things come to those who work.

All shall work together for good; everything is needful that He sends; nothing can be needful that He withholds.

Work hard, be patient, and be a sponge while learning your business. Learn how to take criticism. Follow your gut instincts and don't compromise.

Success is not an accident. It is sheer hard work. There is no short-cuts. You have to take the stairs and you have to start from the bottom.

Nothing is ever for sure, but when something in love doesn't work from the beginning, it's never going to work. Don't push it.

But keep on working and hoping still. For in spite of the grumblers who stand about, somehow, it seems, all things work out.

To appreciate art you've got to work at it a bit.