Quotes About Patience

Juggling work and parental responsibilities is no easy task, but I'm trying my best and just like everything else there are good days and there are bad days.

Life is too short to be doing work that doesn't make you feel happy and fulfilled. I'd rather wait for the right project, as opposed to just taking whatever is handed to me.

A lot of my work is like picking potatoes; you have to get into the rhythm of it. It is different than patience. It is not thinking. It is working with the rhythm.

I wish there were shortcuts to wisdom and self-knowledge: cuter abysses or three-day spa wilderness experiences. Sadly, it doesn't work that way. I so resent this.

I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out.

It wasn't until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines.

I didn't get playing professional golf until I was 25 years old. And I always said that if I could make it work, I would play as long as I could walk.

Part of me believes that love is more valuable when you have to work for it.

But that's one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn't work out, you have the luxury of working on it over time.

When I began my humanitarian work, I understood that in order to gain credibility I needed patience, commitment and unwavering perseverance. I needed to ignore the skeptics.

If there is some profound method that offers a quick way, we would rather follow that than undertake arduous journeys and difficult practices. But some manual work and physical effort is necessary.

Those who are waiting for an epiphany to strike may wait forever. The artist simply goes to work, making art, both good and not so good.

Be careful what you wish for because you will get it. Be even more careful what you work for because you will get it even more quickly.

And however dark the skies may appear, And however souls may blunder, I tell you it all will work out clear, For good lies over and under.

I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass - which is better than trying to fill them.

Never look for your work in one place and your progress in another.

Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching.

There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.

Steady work turns genius to a loom.

No one is so busy that he hasn't the time to dismantle a work of art.

After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.

Whoever prematurely begins a work that is above his strength receives nothing, but only brings harm upon himself.

Things usually work out in the end." "What if they don't?" "That just means you haven't come to the end yet.

Know'st thou yesterday, its aim and reason? Work'st thou will today for worthier things? Then calmly wait the morrow's hidden season, And fear thou not, what hap soe'er it brings