Quotes About Patience

Well, I've always just - I've never really gone out looking for work. I always waited for it to sort of hit me on the head.

Really in all my years on Tour, in the U.S. Open I probably played great golf in two of them, out of maybe 20, so it's a lot of work.

I develop my own film. And I work in spurts. I pile it up.

I work for two years on a book and it comes out and two days later I've got my first e-mail: When is the next one coming out?

Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience; and yet religion, for all its poetic motley, comes closer than work-a-day opinion to the heart of things.

Birds buildbut not I build; no, but strain, Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. Mine,O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.

It isn't as bad as you sometimes think it is. It all works out. Don't worry. Put your trust in God, and move forward with faith and confidence in the future.

I do less waiting by the phone than anyone I know in the business. I don't wait for a job. I just go on to my own work.

Maybe you've got the patience to work out some complicated, long-term, ironic way to get back at the people who've wronged you, but that's you.

Someone once said that death is God's way of telling you to slow down. I do enjoy what I do, and the secret of my success is the willingness to grind work out.

If you keep working you'll last longer. I'd hate to spend the rest of my life trying to outwit an 18-inch fish.

And so we plough along, as the fly said to the ox.

Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.

Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it.

It also is true that some ideas naturally work themselves out over a longer period of time than a single human life can encompass.

The Lord will never abandon you nor forsake you. He will stick with you until His perfect work is complete.

Before you dismiss a beginner's work, remember how much you sucked when you started. You probably sucked worse, actually.

I've made my mind up that I will only do a film that I really, really love. I'm determined to lie low until a role comes along that really makes me want to work.

Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.

It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

There are forces at work you do not perceive. I weave a delicate strategy which rash actions could rend. Patience , please.

It's got too much hard work slapping them and telling them to shut up.

It is not our job to work miracles, but it is our task to try.

I try to bear pain and not panic. I try to remember that it's got an expiration date, even if I don't know when that expiration date is. And I try to use it as fuel for my work.