Quotes About Patience

Four minutes," Walter said, "seems like four hours.

The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is at hand now, and proceeds to create better times.

Count nothing lost; even the day that sees "no worthy action done" may be a day of preparation and accumulation that will add greatly to the achievements of tomorrow. Many a day was made famous because nothing was done the day before.

The habit of giving up when the present task is half finished and try something else is one of the chief causes of failure.

La culpabilité de Qadesh l'amenait à se poser des questions auxquelles il ne devait pas répondre dans la précipitation et sans preuve. Un feu étrange, parfois insupportable, le tourmentait: pressé de découvrir la vérité, ne risquait-il pas de la dénaturer en brûlant les étapes?

For God's sake don't say yes until I've finished talking.

La debolezza sta nel non agire al momento opportuno.

Throughout my many years of illness, I have never ... to ask[ed] God why He allowed me to suffer so long, I only ask what He wants me to do.

Il faut apprendre à se faire chier même quand ce n'est pas nécessaire, sinon après on ne peut pas le supporter.

Sometimes lessons take time to learn.

It takes more than Love and Passion to make a relationship work

We are headed toward the unknown, and we have no choice but to sit quietly in our hard seats and let ourselves be taken there.

You must also keep your faith in God to guide you forward if the way is not clear. Whether the journey is long or short, He will help you as long as you place your trust in Him.

This life of ours can feel an awful lot like waiting

Whether your journey is long or short, He will help you as long as you place your trust in Him.

She stayed as quiet as she could. This, she found, was the trick: you didn't have to react to each little thing. You could just exist. Let your mind simmer over a low fire.

Only the good Lord knows what's going to happen, and He ain't telling.

The truth is, even if you make a pact with yourself that you're not looking and don't care, a piece of you is always waiting for love to happen.

When Miss Larsen talks to me, she bends down and looks me in the eye. When she asks questions, she waits for my answer. She smells of lemons and vanilla. And she treats me like I'm smart. After I take a test to determine my reading

Maybe it doesn't matter how much gets done. Maybe the value is in the process—in

other, better, memories: making fried eggs with her dad, turning them over with a large black plastic spatula. "Not so fast, Molly Molasses," he'd say. "Easy. Otherwise the eggs'll go splat.

I could either wait it out or pack my bags, but I could't force a confrontation with a man who refused to be confronted. So I did what a lot of women do: I kept my head in the sand. And I waited for winter to be over.

Perhaps Anita Loos had been right when she wrote that family life was only fit for those who could stand it.

That act alone made my blood boil. I wasn't sure how long I could sit through this meal without ravishing more than just the food.