Quotes About Patience

Rash indeed is he who reckons on tomorrow, or happily on the days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.

So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!

Woman's work as a listener is never done. ... I thought I'd spent too much of my life listening for some damn man - for my father and now for my husband.

Be temperate in your work, but don't carry the patience over into your leisure hours.

When bad things happen, it's the time when you get to work in the garden and sort out the pots from the weeds.

People say sometimes, "You work in the fastest-moving industry in the world." I don't feel that way. I think I work in one of the slowest. It seems to take forever to get anything done.

The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect; in execution, the labors of many.

We must follow the rule: Better fewer, but better. We must follow the rule: Better get good human material in two or even three years than work in haste without hope of getting any at all.

There are no shortcuts to victory. We must commit ourselves to the slow, painstaking work of foreign policy day by day and year by year.

Beauty, unlike the rest of the gifts handed out at birth, does not require dedication, patience and hard work to pay off. But it's also the only gift that does not keep on giving.

Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.

Most people spend most of their days doing what they do not want to do in order to earn the right, at times, to do what they may desire.

Make a painting you can work on for a long period, and make it look like it doesn't show any effort.

It took me years and years of trial efforts to work out that there is absolutely no knitting triumph I can achieve that my husband will think is worth being woken up for.

I wouldn't mind starting to ride some more if I had a really good horse to just work a little bit with every day.

In fact, as a spin bowler, you have to work on the batsman over after over.

Can you hang in there with your investigators when things get going tough? Don't give up on investigators because they have a little weakness. Work with them until the Holy Ghost tells you not to.

Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.

I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.

There's nothing more prized to a man than something he had to wait for, work for, or struggle a little bit to get.

Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer.

The professional arms himself with patience, not only to give the stars time to align in his career, but to keep himself from flaming out in each individual work.

I work between my heartbeat. I have one-and-a-half seconds to actually move. And at the same time I have to watch I don't inhale my own work.