Quotes About Patience

Il suffit d'une minuscule graine d'espoir pour planter tout un champ de bonheur… et d'un peu de patience pour lui laisser le temps de pousser.

La solitude rend impatient, c'est l'impatience qui tue l'enfance.

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He remembered the story of an old man who went into a church one day to reprimand God for never having helped him win the lottery—not once, not even a single little prize, and he was about to celebrate his ninety-seventh birthday. And then, from within a celestial ray of light, God's voice boomed down to him: "Try buying a ticket first.

Quizá contestes a esta postal, quizá encuentre una carta tuya cuando vuelva a casa, quizá vengas a buscarme. Me parece que estoy harto de tanto "quizá".

C'est l'impatience qui tue l'enfance.

C'est moche d'avoir à guetter un signe de quelqu'un pour se sentir heureux.

A solid rule when you are playing other people is you do not win big and immediately walk away.

Think about self-defense less as what you do and more about what you don't do.

I know you've probably heard that in show business it can take twenty years to create an overnight success but what you don't hear is that that is the exact same amount of time it takes to create a bitter failure.

it can take twenty years to create an overnight success but what you don't hear is that that is the exact same amount of time it takes to create a bitter failure.

Teach self-soothing. Learning self-soothing does not mean that your child will necessarily cry. Patience and perseverance will pay off.

I long believed that one was born a writer, that it was enough to allow to ripen within oneself for an appropriate number of years this precious seed, and that then one day the first book would appear, as had earlier, at the appointed hour, the first tooth. 53

Comme rien n'est plus précieux que le temps, il n'y a pas de plus grande générosité qu'à le perdre sans compter.

Nos jours ne sont beaux que par leur lendemain.

Ils marchèrent toute la journée sur leurs ombres grandissantes.

Not only does one not retain all at once the truly rare works, but even within such works it is the least precious parts that one perceives first. Less deceptive than life, these great masterpieces do not give us their best at the beginning.

It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.

With women who do not love us, as with the "dear departed," the knowledge that there is no hope left does not prevent us from continuing to wait.

but they knew, either instinctively or from experience, that our impulsive emotions have but little influence over the course of our actions and the conduct of our lives; and that regard for moral obligations, loyalty to friends, patience in finishing our work, obedience to a rule of life, have a surer foundation in habits solidly formed and blindly followed than in these momentary transports, ardent but sterile.

How often is not the prospect of future happiness thus sacrificed to one's impatient insistence upon an immediate gratification.

When we are kept waiting, we suffer so keenly from the absence of the person for whom we are longing that we cannot endure the presence of anyone else.

We need, between us and the fish which, if we saw it for the first time cooked and served on a table, would not appear worth the endless shifts and wiles required to catch it, the intervention, during our afternoons with the rod, of the rippling eddy to whose surface come flashing, without our quite knowing what we intend to do with them, the bright gleam of flesh, the hint of a form, in the fluidity of a transparent and mobile azure.

Unfortunately the next day was not the vast, extraneous expanse of time which I had feverishly looked forward. When it drew to a close my laziness and my painful struggle to overcome internal obstacles had simply lasted twenty-four hours longer.