Quotes About Patience

When you have got a thing where you want, it is a good thing to leave it where it is.

The camel once swallowed, the gnats went down easily enough.

A large proportion of the population of religious countries pass their lives at leisure, supported by the patient labour of the devout.

How often in life must one be content with what one can get!

Evidently he had the first quality of an angler, which is not to measure the pleasure by the catch.

There is always a strong case for doing nothing, especially for doing nothing yourself.

rebuked his son Oskar for waking him at seven to tell him the news: "Why did you want to wake me up an hour earlier? It would still have been true at eight." And with this he went to sleep again till his usual calling-time.

Many things were adopted in the war which we were told were technically impossible, but patience, perseverance, and above all the spur of necessity under war conditions, made men's brains act with greater vigour, and science responded to the demands….

It is sometimes wise to allow natural processes to work, and crimes and follies to be paid in coin from their own mint.

more than is wise or philosophic; but I contain myself, when nothing is to be gained by giving way.

Los hombres del comienzo no deben ser juzgados completamente bajo la luz del fin. Tenía que aprenderse todo; tenía que sufrirse todo. Pero los que aprendieron más lentamente no fueron los que tenían que sufrir más.

Pardon me, deserts, that I don't rush to you bearing a spoonful of water.

Now enter, single file, the hosts who died early on, in Acts 3 and 4, or between scenes. The miraculous return of all those lost without a trace. The thought that they've been waiting patiently offstage without taking off their makeup or their costumes moves me more than all the tragedy's tirades.

My apologies to chance for calling it necessity. My apologies to necessity if I'm mistaken, after all. Please, don't be angry, happiness, that I take you as my due. May my dead be patient with the way my memories fade. My apologies to time for all the world I overlook each second.

Byla to veliká odbornice na ?ekání, mírná, pasivní, nesmÄ›lá, a proto ji ?asto bolely zuby, neboÃ…Â¥ se skvÄ›le hodila do ?ekárny u zubaÃ…â"¢e a její zuby o tom vÄ›dÄ›ly.

Golf, like measles, should be caught young.

I ask you most humbly to continue loving me a little, and to be content for the moment with this token of a congratulation until new drawers can be made for my small little brain box, so I have a place to put the brain that I still hope to acquire.

Wir brauchen keine Dichter mit guter Grammatik. Zu guter Grammatik fehlt uns Geduld.

I do not mind if you think slowly, but I do object when you publish more quickly than you think.

I'm giving [my analyst] one more year--then I'm going to Lourdes.

Analysis] has helped, but not as much as I've wanted. Years ago, I remember, I brought my clarinet into the repair shop, and the guy took two weeks and put new pads on and everything. When I went in, I said, 'Thank you, but am I going to sound better?' And he said, 'Yes, you will sound better, but not as much as you'd like to.

Para acabar con el ajedrez Correspondencia Metí la pata. Perdóneme. El hecho de que usted no se percatara de que faltaba una carta indica igualmente cierto despiste por su parte, que yo, por la mía,atribuyo a su impaciencia, pero Dios sabe que todos cometemos errores. Así es la vida. Y el ajedrez

Metí la pata. Perdóneme. El hecho de que usted no se percatara de que faltaba una carta indica igualmente cierto despiste por su parte, que yo, por la mía,atribuyo a su impaciencia, pero Dios sabe que todos cometemos errores. Así es la vida. Y el ajedrez.

Take it easy, but take it.