Quotes About Patience

You want to raise good kids, but it doesn't happen in one day. You want to be a great fighter, but it doesn't happen overnight. It takes time.

You can't expect a coach to come in and just change everything overnight.

I don't think you are ever prepared for success with bands like Simple Minds and U2. It wasn't until your fourth or fifth album that you really got that big-league success. It doesn't happen overnight, so you get used to it.

I am not in a hurry, I don't want to become a star overnight.

When you can attack legislation and get laws and the system changed, that's going to bring a real impact, but we can't expect that to happen overnight.

It's so funny, this thing of 'overnight success.' I've been doing this for 20 years, but yes, sure, it happened overnight!

We didn't really want to be an overnight success as that brings with it its own problems.

I've been playing music for over 20 years now. I started playing when I was 14 years old. To everyone who has said I was an overnight success... where have you been the last 20 years?

Things that are like overnight success things don't last long, and that's not something I wanted.

I want people to know that I am not an overnight success, if only to encourage the people who don't feel that they are being successful.

My sister was cute, she said, 'Oh my gosh, you're an overnight success.' 'Oh,' I said, 'this is the longest night.' I've been at it since 1982.

It took me 30 years for people to consider me an overnight success.

There's no such thing as an overnight success.

Things that look like an 'overnight success' typically are not.

Nobody just said, 'Here, be a star!' I've joked many times that I was a seven-year overnight success.

Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years.

You know, it's nice being an overnight success after 50 years.

I was a 17-year overnight success really. I think I earned it.

I think average investors should not trade a lot. The evidence is overpowering. The more you trade, the less you earn.

Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

We might do well to contain our elation at seeing the light at the end of the tunnel until we are certain it is not some guy on a motorcycle coming straight at us.

Everyday is one less day.

After work the following Monday Larry sat on his porch not reading but waiting in his usual company of bats and birds and insects, the tinkling of his mother's chime each time the earth breathed its wind. He was disappointed but not surprised when the night stole the far trees and the fence across the road and then the road itself and finally the sky, Larry's truck gone too in the dark and stars beginning to wink in the sky like nail holes in the roof of a barn.

Whether or not the public should be expected to understand is not the critical point. Obviously much of the complexity of law will try the public's patience, even if the law is expressed plainly. The real problem is that even other lawyers cannot fathom what their colleagues are writing.