Quotes About Patience

One step at a time . . . one day at a time. Just today—just this day to get through

Stay calm when things are hard or not going right with you. You will get through it when you persevere instead of quitting. Quitting leads to much less happiness in life than perseverance and hope. Salva Dut Rochester, New York 2010

A step at a time. One problem at a time—just figure out this one problem. Day by day, solving one problem at a time, Salva moved toward his goal.

I deserve a year, two years, to live my own self into being." Depressing

The hardest task for a parent was to encourage them to grow, but not too fast for their own good.

Only make one meal for your kids. They won't starve to death if they don't eat it. In fact, if they are hungry every night because they refuse dinner, perhaps they'll learn to eat more. "I call it the Starbucks Phenomenon: The expectation that it's okay for each person in the family to order something different in the home," Dr. Fishel says. "That's just another burden on who is doing the cooking and could be another impediment.

But by taking the time away, getting myself off the treadmill, and just slowing down and learning, I felt I had so much more to give back. And maybe that was something that needed to happen for all of us.

He listened with the mild demeanour of a man who had waited eight years for his town council to draw up a specification for emergency repairs.

Hello, still waiting for an unexpected development? There was none. It happens. It happens all the time.

You play the hand you're dealt. You play it without false hope or despair, without comparing other people's hand, or questioning why you've got this hand, you just play it, as best you can, today, and the next day, and the day after that.

I'm grateful when stories come in a rush, although I keep an eye on them afterwards, to see whether they hold together. It's harder to judge the ones that took so long to finish. With those, I've lost perspective. Mostly I'm just glad that I can be done with them.

There were of course exceptions, but on the whole the "intellectuals" among us withstood the hardships of the journey resignedly and patiently. They proved to be tougher, quieter, more uncomplaining than many men from other walks of life who were physically stronger and physically better trained.

I am a slow worker, but I could have written at least two books more in the time that I have been obliged to spend waiting around public offices and in the back yards of recruiting stations—waiting unnecessarily for unnecessary things.

Half an ear cocked, something in me, all night, every night, is waiting for you to come home.

Maybe the greatest favour a spouse can tender is to overlook what you can't.

You were patient, but I worried that your very patience tempted Kevin to try it.

A child needs your love most when he deserves it least -Erma Bombeck

Maybe the greatest favor a spouse can tender is to overlook what you can't.

I've never been shy. I've just waited until I had something to say.

maybe it's inevitable that the very things that first attract you to someone are the same things with which you later grow irritated.

I was never shy. I was waiting to have something to say.

Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.

The people who really matter in social affairs are neither those who wish to stop short like a mule, or leap from crag to crag like a mountain goat.

Attempting to defeat the enemy by wrestling with people could be likened to trying to destroy a tree by picking all its fruit.