Quotes About Patience

The secret of walking on water is knowing where the stones are.

Never take a risk out of pride, impatience, or a desire to get it over with.

Herbert George Jenkins

Be patient and calm; no one can catch fish in anger.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

Doctors think a lot of patients are cured who have simply quit in disgust.

A sabedoria não consiste tanto em saber o que fazer no final, mas em saber o que fazer em seguida.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.

Your time will come. But if it doesn't come, don't let that make no difference either.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.

a year and an instant is equivalent in a monotonous life

Haste in every business brings failures.

Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.

Occasionally a yellow leaf fell from the tree. Then one or the other of us would turn up his eyes as though to see the leaf fall once again. We didn't wait for the next leaf, which fell a little later. Out eyes lacked the patience. We didn't commit ourselves to leaves. Only to flying splashes of yellow that distracted our faces from one another's

Es ist gar keine Katze, sagte ich mir, nur die Verpelzung der graugestreiften Langeweile, die Geduld der Angst in einer schmalen Straße.

Boredom is fear's patience. Fear doesn't want to exaggerate. Only on occasion—and fear considers this very important—does it want to know how things stand with me.

O tédio é a paciência do medo.

We have all the time in the world. We once complained about being over-scheduled; now we're thrilled to bits if there's something to jot down other than a doctor's appointment.

Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists.

Sometimes you can't fight. Sometimes, some things, you have to outlast.

Dripping water pierces a stone.

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. —William Butler Yeats

Sokrates' wife, Xanthippe, had in antiquity a reputation as a shrew - but being married to such a man would have tried anyone's patience, and the evidence is not conclusive.