Quotes About Patience

If the other refuses to respect your No, you may see only two choices: submission and outright war. Yet there is a third choice, highlighted by Gandhi: to underscore your Positive No. Don't overreact, underscore. To underscore means to emphasize patiently and persistently that No in fact means No. It means continuing to stand up for what is important to you without destroying the possibility of a deal or a healthy relationship.

Advice his father had given him years before sounded in his mind: "In most of what you face, son, you'll make it through if you don't give in to panic." He

Cobey had lost his patience and snapped at the dim-witted giant to shut his pie hole

But, there! - Persons and Things do turn up so vexatiously in this life, and will in a manner insist on being noticed.

Piece by piece, each fit perfectly until the puzzle was complete. It could not have happened without the help of an unseen power.

I believe a boy can have anything in life that he wants once he starts working for it. The main thing is not to give up. It makes no difference how tough things get, just bow your back, keep working, and put your heart and soul into it. As you go along your way, live a good clean life, don't hurt anyone or anything, and always be honest. It doesn't hurt to pray a little, too. If you do all those things-someday you'll have your pony and gun. You'll get help when you least expect it.

It's not good for a boy to want something with all his heart and then be disappointed. Things like that can hurt for a long time.

Grandpa," I asked, "what good's it going to do us, knowing his name?" "It might do a lot of good," Grandpa said. "This trainer says that if you could make friends with that monkey he would probably do anything you wanted him to do." "Make friends with him!" I said. "Grandpa, I don't

The Stationmaster, sensing something more than just two dogs and a boy, waited in silence.

Good things come to those who work.

Give it time, I thought. I grow on people; I'm like an industrial solvent, I'll wear you down...

When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.

Not an hour is lost that is spent in the saddle.

The French have a saying – is it the French? I don't know, I believe so – there is a saying that you do not put a boiling kettle upon the fire. You put cold water in the kettle and allow it to warm. So with marriage.

Give me some surety if you want to continue. It is not late yet." Ross offered his gold watch, which had belonged to his father and which he seldom wore.

Mi ci vorrebbe un po' più di gentilezza ora che respiro ancora, ecco cosa.»

Yes. Oh yes. I told him Caroline wanted to break the journey down here to be in Bodmin during the election, but Caroline has written him also, so it was no news. Like her to ask me to ask her uncle and then to write herself!" "She's only a girl. Be patient with her, Unwin. You'll need patience. She's temperamental and wayward. And there are others will think her a good catch beside yourself.

Let me say this: being an idiot is no box of chocolates. People laugh, lose patience, treat you shabby. Now they say folks supposed to be kind to the afflicted, but let me tell you this - it ain't always that way. Even so, I got no complaints, cause I reckon I done live a pretty interesting life, so to speak.

You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I prefer that it be postponed.

We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes.