logo

Quotes About Patience

My philosophy of life is simple: I need someone to love, something to wait and do something.
~ Elvis Presley
He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not yet come or that it has passed.
~ Epicurus
I'm sure there's some philosophy that says one of the best ways to deal with any of your problems is to take a deep breath and step away from them for a while, writing does this for me.
~ Christopher Paul Curtis
Just sitting around waiting for my life to begin, while it was all just slipping away.
~ Bruce Springsteen
My philosophy is to take one day at a time. I don't worry about the future. Tomorrow is even out of sight for me.
~ Bobby Darin
I keep living this day like the next will never come.
~ Fiona Apple
There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.
~ Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Vol. 1
Love delayed is lust augmented.
~ Louis de Bernieres
Life is a maze of doors and they all open from the side you're on. Just keep on pushing hard boy, try as you may, you're going to wind up where you started from.
~ Cat Stevens
Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.
~ Epicurus
Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I've been looking for.
~ Billy Joel
The philosophy of waiting is sustained by all the oracles of the universe.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm a very tolerant man, except when it comes to holding a grudge.
~ Robin Williams
Hope does not leave without being given permission.
~ Rick Riordan
Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don't expect too much, enjoy what you have.
~ Dean Koontz
Ain't no time to hate, barely time to wait
~ Robert Hunter
Being satisfied with little, you can gain much. Seeking much you will go astray. The wise heeds this precept. If it could be so with all people!
~ Laozi
I'm not on the court anymore, so no use looking for my philosophy. If somebody's waiting for that, they can wait for another justice.
~ Sandra Day O'Connor
Too many times we stand aside, and let the waters slip away. Til what we put off til tomorrow has now become today.
~ Garth Brooks
It won't do you any good to run if you're running the wrong way. I've developed a new philosophy...I only dread one day at a time.
~ Charles M. Schulz
We thought philosophy ought to be patient and unravel people's mental blocks. Trouble with doing that is, once you've unravelled them, their heads fall off.
~ Frederic Raphael
The minute hand moves faster than you think it does.
~ John Mayer
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made ...
~ Robert Browning