Quotes About Patience

I'd have a nervous breakdown except that I've been through this too many times to be nervous.

As Winston Churchill once said, "The Americans can always be counted upon to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all other possibilities.

Had we but world enough, and time . . .

Mastery of creative tension brings out the capacity for perseverance and patience. Time is an ally.

To my daughter, without whose help this book would have been completed a long time back.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are the greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.

7. THE KEY TO SUCCESS IS COMPASSION In his new adaptation of the Chinese sacred text Tao Te Ching, Stephen Mitchell offers a provocative take on Lao-tzu's approach to leadership: I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are the greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies

I often reminded the players to focus on the journey rather than the endgame, because if you give the future all your attention, the present will pass you by.

In order to practice sincerely and to develop patience," he says, "you need someone who willfully hurts you.

What's more, obsessing about winning is a loser's game: The most we can hope for is to create the best possible conditions for success, then let go of the outcome.

The soul of success is surrendering to what is.

I've discovered that you can solve many difficulties with what Lao-tzu called non-action

In his new adaptation of the Chinese sacred text Tao Te Ching, Stephen Mitchell offers a provocative take on Lao-tzu's approach to leadership: I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are the greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.

What's more, obsessing about winning is a loser's game: The most we can hope for is to create the best possible conditions for success, then let go of the outcome. The ride is a lot more fun that way.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself. ZEN PROVERB

I can only make one person happy each day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow doesn't look good, either.

Tomorrow morning, he decided, I'll begin clearing away the sand of fifty thousand centuries for my first vegetable garden. That's the initial step.

Once a guy stood all day shaking bugs from his hair.

I've been waiting a long time for last year. But I guess it's just not coming again.

For them, winter had come.

Quando você é louco, aprende a ficar calado.

I'll give you my answer when I've decided.

So then when they rise and tend to be, the more quickly they grow that they may be, so much the more they haste not to he. —St. Augustine

I wish I'd become a plant earlier.