Quotes About Patience

Time, that aged nurse, rocked me to patience.

There is an old saying well begun is half done - 'tis a bad one. I would use instead, Not begun at all till half done; so according to that I have not begun my Poem and consequently (a priori) can say nothing about it.

I will stay very little while, for as I am in a train of writing now I fear to disturb it—let it have its course bad or good ...

at once it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, - I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason

In the five years that he had dedicated to this work, he had produced an average of only six paragraphs monthly. He could not even remember what he had written in some of the tablets, and he realized that several were filled principally with doodling. However, Ignatius thought calmly, Rome was not built in a day.

The crew waits for no man.

Love is a flower you got to let it grow.

Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come.

When you do something noble and beautiful and no one notices, don't be sad. Sunrise is a beautiful spectacle but without a doubt the greater part of the audience is still asleep.

Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun, and if the sun don't come, we'll be standing in the English rain.

In the end everything will be ok if it's not okay it's not the end.

Na konci vÅ¡echno dobÃ…â"¢e dopadne, pokud to dobÃ…â"¢e nedopadlo, jeÅ¡tÄ› to není konec.

When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.

Everybody does die, Orel. That's a fact." "I'll grant you that, but they live first. That's the part that counts. The living part. You can't wait around doing nothing because everybody's going to die. I mean, in a hundred years, we're all dead, right?

I]n the interests of our common tasks, we must sometimes overlook their stupidities," one Soviet official explained in 1973.

I draw comfort from the notion that nature reveals its motivations only slowly; mysteries within mysteries that keep us arrogant, would-be know-alls firmly in our place.

I'm not very good at handling stupid people. I must admit.

One night in bed Jennings complained that Brand's monologues were growing harsh and boring. She asked him to please "gentle up.

LISTEN twice as much as you speak.

It takes as long as it takes.

Since you may take a month, or ten months, or several years to turn one idea into a piece of writing

Our torments also may in length of time Become our Elements.

The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.

A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.