Quotes About Patience

Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.

It wasn't about being brave, or toughing it out, or any of that air-punching motivational language; all that was required in these moments was to keep plodding on, quietly, resolutely, without fuss or drama.

love does not mean everything will be perfect. Humans are not perfect. We mess up, argue, make mistakes. But if we're smart, we forget about those and get back to love because that's what makes life worthwhile.

But if it's God's will, anytime is the perfect time.

As your aunts would say, 'Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding,'" Mac recited.

Et un jour on se retrouve à jouer seul. L'autre retire ses billes, reprend ses cartes, et vous restez là, comme un con, devant une partie inachevée... A attendre. Parce que vous ne pouvez faire que ça, attendre. Cesser d'attendre, ça voudrait dire que c'est fini.

We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.

For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining, is to let it rain.

Time has laid his hand Upon my heart, gently, not smiting it, But as a harper lays his open palm Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Labor with what zeal we will, Something still remains undone, Something uncompleted still Waits the rising of the sun.

I do not know; nor will I vainly question Those pages of the mystic book which hold The story still untold, But without rash conjecture or suggestion Turn its last leaves in reverence and good heed, Until "The End" I read.

Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today.

Muchos se casan aprisa que a llorar despacio van.

Las penas anticipadas dicen que matan dos veces.

Y al cabo, al cabo, se siembre o no se siembre, El año se remata por Diciembre.

It's a good thing I'm a reasonably patient woman. Otherwise, I might have to kill you.

A girl can stand just so much virtue.

My God, I have come with the seeds of questions. I planted them, and they never flowered.

Morn came and went—and came, and brought no day.

For time at last sets all things even And if we do but watch the hour, There never yet was human power.

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.

Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him