Quotes About Patience

There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.

You can't come out of drama school and think, 'It's all going to be amazing.' You have to expect to work in a bar for at least five years and be a waitress for maybe two!

I try not to plan ahead. I just kind of try to think in the moment. I always believe everything will work out the way it's supposed to.

I'm letting God write my love story because once upon a time, I took control of it and it didn't work well.

You work for a long period of time and the results don't really show, but at some point everything just comes together and you start to play better, or get more confidence.

You can't build a chimney from the top, you know.

Listen deeply. Meditate on that which is arising. Even if it's boredom or difficulty or maybe a feeling of being stuck, that in itself can be the work for your practice.

Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.

The things I've done in my life have required a lot of years of work before they took off.

Problems patiently endured will work for our spiritual perfecting.

Ask yourself, 'how long am I going to work to make my dreams come true?' I suggest you answer, 'as long as it takes.'

I've waited my entire life to be busy. Whenever I hear actors complain about being busy, I think, 'shut up.' Because you do, you wait to be successful or to be able to work.

You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear.

Love is ever evolving and it takes compromise, work and patience.

It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.

Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times.

I don't need to work right away. I'd rather wait for something really good; to be excited about a role, or a director, or a project.

Sometimes not having any idea where we're going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

If trying harder doesn't work, try softer.

Hard work does not go unnoticed, and someday the rewards will follow.

you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig.

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.

In terms of soul work, we dare not get rid of the pain before we have learned what it has to teach us.