Quotes About Patience

He had enough experience in the business of prayer to recognize an answer when it showed up, though, however unwelcome.

Weel, lass, d'ye mean us to stand here until we're melted away like sugar in a dish o' tea?

You don't forget. You simply get to the point where you don't care what birth will feel like; anything is better than being pregnant for an instant longer. I'd reached that point roughly two weeks before my due date. The date

I drained my cup and sat still, waiting for the men to come out.

again, yet from that minute that that occasion

The mountains had their own time, and a wise man didn't hurry them.

I think God takes no account of Time.

When God closes a door, he opens a window.

The only thing you can do—the only thing—is to try for the one who's in front of you. Act as though this one patient is the only person in the world—because to do otherwise is to lose that one, too. One at a time, that's all you can do. And you learn not to despair over all the ones you can't help, but only to do what you can.

He put his arm around her and drew her head down on his shoulder, and they sat silently together, waiting for the light to come back.

the frantic, reflexive Dear Lord, let it be all right of everyone facing crisis. Over time, either the crisis or the petitioner wears down, and prayer either ceases or Ã¢â'¬Â¦ the person praying starts to listen.

Over time, either the crisis or the petitioner wears down, and prayer either ceases or Ã¢â'¬Â¦ the person praying starts to listen.

God does things on his time. He wanted me to sit down and wanted me to get some other aspects of my life back in order.

Things definitely get easier with time... I think that's true in most aspects of life.

Although I am training 12-year-olds at my School of Athletics, they will hit the track only after three or four years.

I try really hard not to be attached to success.

When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.

I only got 'War and Peace' on the third attempt.

I had 14 failed attempts at having kids.

I'm very lucky to still be in love and still have a wife I'm very attracted to. It was worth the wait.

One of the agonies of being an author is to know when to stop writing.

Only if I reach 100 years old will I write a very complete autobiography. Not before.

I was the kid who was waiting outside the ground for autographs.

I had 235 games for Gillingham in the old Third Division. Everybody associates me with Man United and winning things but I had seven years at Gillingham and 3 at Norwich. One of those years we got relegated. Until I was 30, 31, I hadn't really won anything.