Quotes About Patience

In his mind progress was always to be measured in inches, especially when you didn't have yards or even feet of success to show off.

You can't live your life trying to make people understand something they don't want to understand.

texted each of them. He waited, waited, waited. Then

The world may end later than the year 2060, but I see no reason for its ending sooner. This I mention not to assert when the time of the end shall be, but to put a stop to rash conjectures of fanciful men who are frequently predicting the time of the end, and by doing so bring the sacred prophesies into discredit. —Sir Isaac Newton

Why is the future always Ã¢â'¬Â¦ in the future?

they don't need to love you. Do your best to address their concerns, be consistent in your messaging, and have faith they'll come around eventually. If you move seriously to resolve these issues, and if you do it in a smart, disciplined fashion, they'll eventually notice.

I often quoted a popular Chinese proverb when addressing our leaders: "The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is today.

The most loving women are the women who will test you the most.

It's never going to be over, so stop waiting for the good stuff. As of now, spend a minimum of one hour a day doing whatever you are waiting to do until your finances are more secure, or until the children have grown and left home, or until you have finished your obligations and you feel free to do what you really want to do.

If you are like most men, however, you probably end up feeling burdened by your woman's mood. You feel your woman is a pain in the ass. You wish your woman would leave you alone and take care of herself. Eventually you feel worn down, or frustrated. You end up simply tolerating your woman's moods, while resentment builds inside of you. You wonder, what's her problem? Why can't she just be happy?

STOP HOPING FOR A COMPLETION OF ANYTHING IN LIFE

Every moment waited is a moment wasted, and each wasted moment degrades your clarity of purpose.

can't fix the roof when it's raining, and when the sun comes out the roof don't leak no more. The

Impatience is a poor substitute for a well-considered plan.

We all live as long as we need to. It just happened that I have something to do that's taken a very long time.

That's the nature of a fat man, Ce'Nedra." He sighed. "The last meal is history. It's the next one that's important.

Sorgan tried his very best not to think about how long it must have taken for a stream that small to eat its way down through solid rock to form its current bed. Sorgan knew exactly what the word "hundred" meant, but when numbers wandered off toward "thousand"—or even "million"—and the people who used those terms were talking about years, Sorgan's mind shied back in horror.

You'll fight with each other, of course," she told him as they danced, "but never go to sleep angry. That was always my mistake.

Events are like horses, Hettar told him. Sometimes they run away. After they've run for a while, though, they'll start to walk again. Then there'll be time to put everything together.

Since there was absolutely nothing he could do about his circumstances, chewing on them would only leave a sour taste in his mouth.

Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.

That no single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.

The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the wall, during the first eight pages.

There's been time this whole time. You can't kill time with your heart. Everything takes time.