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Quotes About Patience

Do not allow yourself to be aggravated by someone's anger. Stay calm.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.
~ Bill Cosby, Fatherhood
We all want to go there something awful, but to stand there takes some grace.
~ Rich Mullins
.it's allright not to know all the answers..
~ Boris Kovalík
Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day.
~ John Grogan
When a Cat adopts you, and I am not superstitious at all I don't mean only Black cats there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it and wait until the wind changes.
~ T. S. Eliot
There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat; if you don't pet her for 10 minutes she'll bother you for six hours.
~ Scott Adams
My pet peeve is hearing a knock on the bathroom door followed by the familiar words, 'What are you doing in there?
~ Karen Scalf Linamen
I don't move. I wait behind my log, terrified. Over the past ten minutes, it's become such a dear friend, I consider naming it: Howard, my pet log.
~ Rick Yancey
Take everything as it comes; the wave passes, deal with the next one.
~ Tom Thomson
Lighten up while you still can, don't even try to understand. Just find a place to make your stand, and take it easy.
~ Jackson Browne
My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.
~ Phyllis Diller
Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
~ Iris Murdoch
A new philosophy, a new way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired with much patience and great effort
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.
~ Lewis Carroll
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
~ Winston Churchill
Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Time the devourer of everything.
~ Harry Allen Overstreet
Making miracles is hard work, most people give up before they happen.
~ Sheryl Crow
My basic philosophy can be summed up by an expression we use in Norwegian: hurry slowly. Get there, but be patient.
~ Grete Waitz
Who depends upon another man's table often dines late.
~ John Ray
Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.
~ Tom Robbins
I'm a dweller of the threshold and I'm waiting at the door, and I'm standing in the darkness, I don't want to wait no more.
~ Van Morrison