Quotes About Patience

Never work with kids or animals.

If I don't work for a while, I don't work for a while.

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

A lot of people don't want to put that work in they just want to be famous.

I'm not patient, and some things drive me crazy. In my work, I get incredibly upset when people don't get it right or don't respect others' needs.

College is like a woman: you work so hard to get in, and nine months later you wish you'd never come. We used to say if a frog had side pockets, he'd carry a handgun.

Even the greatest mathematicians, the ones that we would put into our mythology of great mathematicians, had to do a great deal of leg work in order to get to the solution in the end.

If it's meant to be, they'll find a way to make it work eventually.

This leaf here took forever to become that perfect leaf. We're that. We're work in progress. That's actually being alive.

I'm a firm believer that everything in life works out the way it's supposed to. And who knows? I figure I've got a few years left (in the NHL) and maybe I can come back in the end.

I think the average American recognizes that it took years to create the crisis that erupted in 2008 and peaked in January of 2009. And it's going to take some time to work through it.

Usually, about two years of work go into each illusion, whether it's big or small. Two years of work on each five-minute piece.

I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.

I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better.' I take two or three years to finish one of my enormous books, and I can't go that long without reading.

Nobody really wants to work anymore. Nobody has the dedication to say, "It's going to take me ten years to get through this thing."

I teach child development and social policy as an undergraduate course, and I tell my students, "Look, on any of these issues, if you don't want to work on it for thirty years, don't start."

Let us be content to work To do the things we can, and not presume To fret because it's little.

I work with patience, which is almost power.

We must let patience have its perfect work, remembering that there are precious promises in the Scriptures for those who wait upon the Lord.

I've learned in my older age how to let it go when things don't work out, because something incredible that I don't know about yet is probably right around the corner.

it takes as long as three generations of hard work, three generations of sacrifice to correct the wrong!

Through [my children] patience, they're showing me how much they support what's going on, because I'm having to do a lot of work right now.

I mean, there are times when you aren't working, but still believe that work will come.

... a great many times in this world, the hardest work we are given is just to sit to one side and neither speak, nor act. It is then prayer becomes an unspeakable blessing.