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Quotes About Patience

Before you ask some girl for her hand now, keep your freedom for as long as you can now. My Mama told me, you better shop around.
~ Smokey Robinson
As well might you leave the fairies to plough your land or the idle winds to sow it, as sit down and wait for freedom.
~ Thomas Davis
Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.
~ Sam Mendes
You're free. And freedom is beautiful. And, you know, it'll take time to restore chaos and order - order out of chaos. But we will.
~ George W. Bush
Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A true friend is someone who never gets tired listening to your pointless drama over and over again.
~ Lauren Conrad
The essence of true friendship, in my view, is to make allowances for one another's little lapses.
~ David Storey
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.
~ Socrates
You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not.
~ Marsilio Ficino
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
~ George Washington
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
~ Gloria Naylor
Friendship is like a rose. . . opening one petal at a time, only as it unfolds. . . day by day it reveals its true beauty.
~ Joan Walsh Anglund
A dog will never forget the crumb thou gavest him, though thou mayst afterwards throw a hundred stones at his head.
~ Saadi
Job endured everything - until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat.
~ Theophile Gautier
Friendship with the ignorant is as foolish as arguing with a drunkard.
~ Khalil Gibran
Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lord, No one but you and I understands what faithfulness is. Do not let me die until, for them, all danger is driven away.
~ Unknown
I like friends who, when you tell them you need a moment alone, know enough not to stray too far.
~ Robert Breault
Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.
~ John Vanbrugh
Just go on . . . and faith will soon return. To a friend hesitant with respect to infinitesimals.
~ Jean le Rond d'Alembert
If you fall, I will catch you. I will be waiting, time after time.
~ Cyndi Lauper