Quotes About Patience

It was a great test of my ability to work with... watercolors. And it was also a test of my patience; I needed to put myself in a completely disciplined position... I couldn't make mistakes.

Success does not come from having one's work recognized by others. It is the fruit of the seed that you lovingly planted.

It takes long practice, yes. You have to work. Did you think you could snap your fingers, and have it as a gift? What is worth having is worth working for.

Never show unfinished work.

Robert Gober, for example. He doesn't seem like somebody who is just going to show in a gallery that asks him to show. He's just making his work, and when he's ready, he's going to show it.

I'm a religious person. I remember my mom told me: 'Vengeance belongs to God. It's up to him to wreak vengeance.' It's hard for me to get to that point, but that's the work of God.

You always get paid for how hard you work, but it's not always right away.

Everything works out the way the universe wants it to work out.

I feel good. At this point, the only thing I'm trying to do is accumulate at-bats and get my work in, and so far that's what I'm doing.

My dad said to me, 'Work hard and be patient.' It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in.

Lazy people always work harder than anyone else; they're so eager to get through and lie down again.

Abandon fancy theologies and imaginary ideas and do some ordinary daily work... {Engage in this work with} unswerving kindness and unending patience.

Use Time. Make it easy. Get your money to work for you. The key is to get in the market, as it is not about timing the market, but time in the market that matters.

A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.

You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak.

Dig into almost every overnight success story and you'll find about a decade's worth of hard work and perseverance.

In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!

When I left college, I was out of work for three years. I had this dream of being on 'SNL,' and that was all I could imagine.

God never seems to work at the speed that we want Him to.

It's important to think big, but you've got to work small.

I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money.

I've also learned that sometimes, no matter how much you want things to work, you have to accept that sometimes they just don't.

I am consoled by the fact that the Lord knows how to work and how to act, even with insufficient tools.

I can get a better role in TV and work more constantly than I can waiting around for my friends in Canada to call me every four years - which they do - and I go up there and play a leading role.