Quotes About Patience

I'm sitting in a cage with my eye upon the clock.

God owes me nothing. He doesn't have to work for anything good in my life. That is only for those who are called according to His purpose.

Don't hope more than you're willing to work.

When people are mean to you, win them over with kindness. If it doesn't work, you still win.

Things have slowed down considerably since the new series has started airing and I am currently looking for work. It has been a nice year-long vacation nonetheless.

Art is challenging and frustrating but I don't linger in it. I work on five paintings at a time so if I'm frustrated I put one down and begin another.

When you work really hard for something for a long time it's almost impossible to believe that it's coming true.

It's hard to say how time factors into your work, because sometimes things will come to you very quickly, but it will take years for the ideas to be gestating in your mind.

I've always been a writer, actually. Not many people assume that, but I kinda keep quiet about anything that I do until I'm ready to show it. It keeps me humble and also makes me work towards a goal.

Just all that hard work, all those hours in the pool, I feel like it's about to pay off. I guess we'll just have to wait and see this summer.

Some people are much like blisters-they don't show up until the work is done.

The hardest work begins in dry dock.

Take Christ in with you under your yoke, and let patience have her perfect work.

I've always wanted to work with Cameron Crowe. I've auditioned for him several times for various projects over the last ten years, and I've always admired the way he worked with me.

There has been peace. There will be peace again. But right now, we have work to do.

I cannot tell you how long it takes for your exercise to work. If you haven't seen any results in a year or six months you're doing something wrong.

Small steps work—grandiose goals don't.

Because I work quite slowly, I have to keep myself interested over a long research and writing period. So I can't see myself writing about modern middle-class Londoners anytime soon.

Don't try to tackle a two-hour feature movie as your first project. Cut your teeth on a smaller level and work through the kinks at that level and build your strength as you go.

The harder you had to work to open a package, the less you ended up caring about what was inside.

It is a good discipline to be forced to work for work's sake, even to the length of not being allowed to enjoy the fruits of one's labour.

Calm and silent and steady work, and no newspaper humbug, no name-making, you must always remember.

I'd like to find whoever taught the Stump that extra work builds character and push him down the stairs," Neal told Kel at lunch.

With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend weeks and months when you are not acting at all.