Quotes About Patience

Then, turning toward me, he said to me, My child, in almost everything the beginnings are rough; however yours will not be very much so. Be prudent, and seek to please everyone here; at present this is your sole business. For the rest, have courage; we want to take care of you.

On obtient très sûrement et très vite ce qu'on n'est pas pressé d'obtenir.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Respect childhood, and leave nature to act for a long time before you get involved with acting in its place.

If you want to say something clever, you have only to talk long enough.

Again I must enter into minute and detailed explanations. I hear my readers murmur, but I am prepared to meet their disapproval; I will not sacrifice the most important part of this book to your impatience. You may think me as long-winded as you please; I have my own opinion as to your complaints.

However great a man's natural talent may be, the art of writing cannot be learned all at once. Jean-Jaeques Rousseau

Goats and oxen, pulling carts in from the field, left their big, smelly plops all over. these got cleaned up eventually-someone came and scraped them into buckets and took them away-but often this didn't happen until halfway through the morning, and people had to step carefully until then and breathe in that powerful smell.

You never really know what's going on with your ceiling until you just give up and lie down on your floor.

Don't worry, God understands,' Mom said. 'He knows that your father is a cross we must bear.

God knows what He's doing

Hunting is waiting, the Duke used to say, and if you never came home empty-handed they wouldn't call it hunting.

Ils croyaient qu'un jour ou l'autre, cela arriverait, parce qu'ils avaient attendu toute une vie pour cela et qu'ils pensaient le mériter. Muss es sein? Es muss sein.

I've lived the life of a man without teeth, he thought about it. A life of a man without teeth. I've never bitten, I've been waiting, keeping myself for later - and now I've just ascertained that I don't have teeth anymore.

C'est ça le temps, le temps tout nu, ça vient lentement à l'existence, ça se fait attendre et quand ça vient, on est écoeuré parce qu'on s'aperçoit que c'était déjà là depuis longtemps.

This is time, time laid bare, coming slowly into existence, keeping us waiting, and when it does come making us sick because we realise it's been there for a long time.

God doesn't tell you to do hard things so He can stand back and laugh and watch you struggle. He tells you to do things the things that He knows are gonna work out to your good in the end.

Rewriting to me means, if I work on it for three days, I've rewritten it.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to put the work in!!

You may lose again and again... and again because you always think of success, but you can have success because you never think of it but concentrating your right work only.

The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.

I don't do fad things or diets - they don't work.

Sometimes they work, and sometimes they just won't. Sometimes you get hung up on them. When that happens, you just throw it back, and maybe come back to it two or three weeks later.

Sometimes when you're putting the work in it just seems so, so hard, and you never know when that work's going to pay off.