Quotes About Patience

Life's brief span forbids us to enter on far-reaching hopes.

I would not have borne this in my hot youth when Plancus was consul.

Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.

He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate

Beyond the smiling and the weeping, I shall be soon; Beyond the waking and the sleeping, Beyond the sowing and the reaping, I shall be soon! Love, rest, and home Sweet hope! Lord, tarry not, but come!

Weary the path that does not challenge. Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way.

To keep yourself from feeling too much anger or hatred against other people... requires a strong heart...

It's never over till it's over with a friend.

T. S. Eliot told Auden tht the reason he played patience night after night was that it was the nearest thing to being dead.

Why is dissatisfaction taken to be a mark of failing powers and patience, when it might just as easily be understood as a proper judgment on a foolish world?

Was it better then - measuring the loss - not to know happiness at all? Better to go through life waiting for what never came, because that way you had less to mourn?

And thinking of her waiting to be found, while he was waiting to find, gave a beautiful symmetry to the love he felt for her.

Try and enjoy the here and now. The future will take care of itself somehow. The grass is never greener over there.

then had to decide which two-to-three-hour (with luck) block of time I could spend at the DMV. Waits at the DMV are shorter in the morning, and I hate standing in long lines or sitting in uncomfortable chairs next to people with screaming babies, so I opted to go some morning. I couldn't do it Monday morning because I had papers to grade. Tuesday I had to be teaching off campus all day. Wednesday there were faculty meetings and committee meetings

If you've settled on the value approach to investing and come up with an intrinsic value for a security or asset, the next important thing is to hold it firmly. That's because in the world of investing, being correct about something isn't at all synonymous with being proved correct right away.

There aren't always great things to do, and sometimes we maximize our contribution by being discerning and relatively inactive. Patient opportunism – waiting for bargains – is often your best strategy.

I can only repeat what I say to myself day and night: I expect nothing, yet life keeps taking unexpected turns.

Is that your wife?" I asked. "Some day, if I play my cards right

Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. Dag Hammarskjöld

Why doesn't God do something so spectacular that we would know what we are supposed to do?

I can't die yet - I haven't seen The Jolson Story !

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Sometimes it seems to stand still. Like youre in a bag and you cant get out and somebodys always telling you that it will get better with time and time just seems to stand still and laugh at you and your pain. … And then eventually it does break and its six months later. Like you just got your summer clothes out and then its Christmas and inbetween there are ten years of pain.