Quotes About Patience

I always say to any new mums, make sure you get your doctor's approval - wait at least 12 weeks before you do any exercise.

In the 10 years I've been with my wife we've probably argued twice.

As an actor, you spend years getting ready for an opportunity to arise, and when it does, you're ready for it.

It takes time to adapt to become an Arsenal player.

Monsieur Octave de Camps, he said, having wasted his means on a certain Madame Firmiani, was now reduced to teaching mathematics for a living, while awaiting his uncle's death, not daring to let him know of his dissipations.

Tout pouvoir humain est un composé de patience et de temps.

they said, as the soldiers and the dressers said, the perfunctory words, "Have patience! a little courage! What's the good of grieving? Suppose you kill yourself, what then? One gets accustomed to everything; be reasonable!

the first three years of their married life, she was a prey to continual terror. She represented in their union the sagacious and fore-casting side, — doubt, opposition, and fear; while Cesar, on the other hand, was the embodiment of audacity, energy, and the inexpressible delights of fatalism. Yet in spite of these appearances the husband often quaked, while the wife, in reality, was possessed of patience and true courage.

he adopted a sound view of life, appreciating that its universal law obliges us to put up with the less than perfect in everything.

The alterations effected at La Baudraye made everybody eager to see the young mistress, all the more so because Dinah would never show herself, nor receive any company, before she felt quite settled in her home and had thoroughly studied the inhabitants, and, above all, her taciturn husband.

Mes enfants, you mustn't go at things head-on, you are too weak; take it from me and take it from an angle... Play dead, play the sleeping dog.

You are like the peasant," said Sallenauve, laughing, "who, expecting the end of the world, did not sow his wheat.

There are those for whom a woman would love to make such a sacrifice; even if, as often happens, it is for the sake of a man who cannot make allowances for an outbreak of temper.

Il genio è pazienza, come ha detto Buffon. La pazienza è in effetti ciò che, nell'uomo, somiglia di più ai procedimenti che segue la natura quando crea. Che cos'è l'arte, signore? è la natura concentrata.»

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

In adversity remember to keep an even mind.

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

Patience makes lighter what sorrow may not heal.

Cease your efforts to find where the last rose lingers.

Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour?

Never despair.

Nor does Apollo always stretch the bow.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Leave all else to the gods.