Quotes About Patience

Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.

One thing I've learned to do with my age, I really don't look ahead. For years, I've been preaching the precious present and having to always subscribe to it.

I subscribe to the slow nickel theory. You take a little bit at a time. You always make better of what you have when you don't have best.

It's complicated, but it's part of life - play, be a substitute, wait for your time.

I initially found it difficult with my role as a substitute, sometimes sitting in the stands at Spurs, but I learned to deal with it.

My wife is a Christian and is extraordinary patient, logical, and philosophical. For years, I would challenge and condemn her beliefs, battering the structure of her conclusions with every argument, analogy, and evidence I could bring to bear. I am a very argumentative man, and I am as fell and subtle as a serpent in debate.

Mick Jagger knows how to run a show. It's all about pacing. It's not a sprint, it's a marathon. His output is amazing, but his movements are subtle. As I get older, I'll have to adhere to these rules.

I definitely come from that background of the more subtle shifts, the long build... rather than the quick short-attention span dynamic.

Subtlety doesn't work with kids.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

All of us, in a sense, struggle continuously all the time, because we never get what we want. The important thing which I've really learned is how do you not give up, because you never succeed in the first attempt.

If you want a good life, don't succeed at anything too early or too well. And don't choose a profession that attracts money or attention. The minute people want to see you doing what you do, you're finished.

I don't think the way to succeed is by doing something aggressive. Aggression is weak-minded.

The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede.

One thing we see a lot is this - the idea kids have now that they don't have to go to college. They don't have to get a real job. They feel they can become 'Internet famous' by taking selfies. They think they can become a star through social media. We see that a lot. You can succeed. But it takes time and persistence.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try, try, try again.

Not many people get to the major leagues and succeed right away. There are some struggles. Everyone seems to struggle.

So many great movements didn't succeed the first time, but people kept trying and trying and trying.

Opportunities lose not, for all delay is madness; ?Mid bitter sorrow patience show, for ?tis the key of gladness.

Gold does not rust on the ground, and rocks don't get soaked in the rain.

Patience is bitter, but it bears sweet fruit.

The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste.

Before you love, learn to run through the snow leaving no footprint.

He bites his tongue who speaks in haste.