Quotes About Patience

Basically, discipline, effort, patience and courage are hugely important core values for kids to grow up embracing.

My dad always used to tell me that sometimes you have to have a massive storm in order to clear the sky.

I definitely want to go and do some more research. My dad used to make me sit outside on the steps all night long, looking for a UFO flying by and I had to do that for years.

My dad always told me: 'Stop and look back and appreciate what you've done; stop and smell the flowers.'

A salamander can grow a new tail in three weeks. My dad can score new tail in three minutes.

'Keep your head down at school.' Those are sage words from my dad. They kept me in check for years.

Failing and laughing at your own shortcomings are the hallmarks of a sane parent.

My dad told me, 'Your movie's never as good as the dailies and never as bad as the rough cut.

My dad taught me not to overplay, to think about my parts when I play, even in a live situation.

I used to help my dad with a stall selling eggs when I was about 12. People were so hard up they would ask for one egg. But mostly no one came by at all. It was very demoralising.

The most challenging part of being a dad is self-restraint. So often your instinct is to teach and tell. I am constantly reminding myself to listen to them.

Sometimes being a dad is like watching a ping-pong match.

My daddy was the type that if you asked him, "Dad, am I going to get off punishment soon?" - he would extend it. It was like jail.

I always wondered how I could tell when the right one came along - but it was easy. He was the only one that came along.

Be friends first when you're dating. If it turns into something more, that's awesome, and if not you have another friend.

The fact is, you can't marry the best when you're dating the runner-up. While you're searching for Mr. Right, don't settle for Mr. Right Now.

Always carry a book on a date so that when you get bored you can slip into the Ladies for a read.

if the right man does not come along, there are many fates far worse. One is to have the wrong man come along.

Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?

Shed no tear - O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more - O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root's white core.

Grieve not; though the journey of life be bitter, and the end unseen, there is no road which does not lead to an end.

Let us consider this settled, that no one has made progress in the school of Christ who does not joyfully await the day of death and final resurrection.

I have no fear of death, except I hate waiting for it.

The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die.