Quotes About Patience

Princes don't come around everyday, and happy endings don't grow on trees

Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land.

The nurses, I have already learned, are the ones who give us the answers we're desperate for. Unlike the doctors, who fidget like they need to be somewhere else, the nurses patiently answer us as if we are the first set of parents to ever have this kind of meeting with them, instead of the thousandth.

I don't want to make the same mistake twice. I don't want to tell myself it's over when it's not.

If you want to see God laugh, make a plan.

There's a] point where you have to leave the dough alone. It's silly to anthropomorphize bread, but I love the fact that it needs to sit quietly, to retreat from touch and noise and drama, in order to evolve. I have to admit, I often feel that way myself.

Hope is what makes you look outside the window to see if it's stopped raining. Hope is what makes you believe he'll text you back. Hope is why you buy your jeans a little tight... Hope is why you get out of bed in the morning, and why you dream at night. Hope is what makes us believe that things can only get better. Hope is what keeps us going.

It's hard to be the one always waiting. I mean, there's something to be said for the hero who charges off to battle, but when you get right down to it there's a whole story in who's left behind.

Babies don't come with instruction booklets. You'd learn the same way we all do -- you'd read up on dinosaurs, you'd Google backhoes and skidders. And you don't need a penis to go buy a baseball glove.

When you can't see light at the end of the tunnel, it's hard to remember to keep going.

Sometimes Chris wished he could sneak a peek at the back of the book, so to speak, and see how it was all going to turn out, so that he wouldn't have to bother going through the motions.

Love isn't a perfect match, but an imperfect one. You are rocks in a tumbler. At first you bump, you scrape, you snag. But each time that happens, you smooth each other's edges, until you wear each other down. And if you are lucky, at the end of all that, you fit.

Sometimes, to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least. - Julia Romano

Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask, 'Whose child is this?'"Rose chuckled."But usually, they're just in some kind of pain. They need to work it out.

Happiness, honor, and great estate, For those who patiently work and wait.

Things work out the way they're supposed to.

This was the first time I had not just rushed in and followed my instincts, and it wasn't working out. I was beginning to actively regret it.

If you work your hardest, and you do your best, then the rest is not in your control, but in God's Hands.

Remember – it's a long race and you can always outwork talent in the end.

It was a horrible process to get to this. It took me my whole life. If you're new at this — and by 'new at it, ' I mean 15 years in, or even 20 — you're just starting to get traction.

Writing is like painting a painting. Layer over layer over layer.

Hard work is a necessity of today in order to live a great life tomorrow.

Working hard denies oneself from instant gratification.

We are to build ourselves up, get to know God's will, build systems, structures, work hard towards His will and stop expecting miracles.