Quotes About Patience

Well, right now I'm not dead. But when I am, it's like...I don't know, I guess it's like being inside a book that nobody's reading. [...] An old one. It's up on a library shelf, so you're safe and everything, but the book hasn't been checked out for a long, long time. All you can do is wait. Just hope somebody'll pick it up and start reading.

Well, right now... I'm not dead. But when I am, it's like... I don't know, I guess it's like being inside a book that nobody's reading.... An old one. It's up on a library shelf, so you're safe and everything, but the book hasn't been checked out for a long, long time. All you can do is wait. Just hope somebody'll pick it up and start reading.

It seems obvious that any serious reader will have learned long ago how much time to give a book before choosing to shut it. It's only the young, still attached to that sense of achievement inculcated by anxious parents, who hang on doggedly when there is no enjoyment.

From the very beginning and indeed prior to anybody going out I knew very well what to expect from the people in command in the U.S.A. However, the best not the worst must be made of them, and there is little doubt that eventually things will be all right.

When you've been knocked down, confidence gives you the patience to stay down for a minute, until you know how to get up better than you were before. Most people jump right back up because they don't want to look weak and damaged, and then immediately get knocked down again. When you're confident in your ability to recover, you know you'll never be weak or damaged again.

A Cleaner knows when to walk away, and which direction to walk. Never running, always walking; he leaves smoothly and on his own terms.

He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in its performance.

many people who failed did so because they gave up without realizing how close to success they were.

But as for you, be strong and do not give up, for your work will be rewarded. 2 Chronicles 15:7

Life is made out of Thursday afternoons. You just keep having them one after the other and let everything else take care of itself.

Just wait. Someone's going to come along, someone you never expected, someone who needs you because you're you.

Have you noticed that human beings don't have any patience? It's always about them.

Keep the day ahead of you, that's what the old man used to say.

We don't need guns. We just have to be patient. And wait for your hearts to stop beating. And stop they will. And for some of you, real damned soon, truth be told.

Maybe life is a board game, but I never get to roll the dice.

The Greeks believed that it was a citizen's duty to watch a play. It was a kind of work in that it required attention, judgement, patience, all the social virtues." "And the Greek were conquered by the more practical Romans, Arthur." "Indeed, the Romans built their bridges, but they also spent many centuries wishing they were Greeks. And they, after all, were conquered by the barbarians, or by their own corrupt and small spirits.

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Good pictures, Curtis explained, are not products of chance, but come from long hours of study.

I'll take the advice of Labre, the patron saint of wandering souls, who grew up not far from here: 'There is no way. The way is made by walking.

take things like playfulness and purposelessness very seriously. . . . This is not meant to be light, but I think I would have somehow encouraged myself to let go a little bit more and hang in there and not pretend to know where this is all going. You don't need to know where it's all going.

Learn to slow down. Get lost intentionally. Observe how you judge both yourself and those around you.

People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world. —CALVIN, from Calvin and Hobbes

And if all else fails, I try to obey this message I got in a Chinese fortune cookie (which I have since taped to my laptop): "Avoid compulsively making things worse.