Quotes About Patience

I once heard someone say, "If you are standing in line at the judgment seat and see a line with a bunch of preachers in it, get in another line. It will go faster.

Some people say that I talk too fast, but I think it's just that they listen too slowly.

It takes two years for the salt to reach the center of a wheel of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese.

By yielding results as it goes, the walker does not require its clients to wait for an entire tree to be scanned.

Acquisitions like that take years to play out," said Mahaney

Stay excited and stay humble and good things will come.

It's common in the middle of a drought . . . to forget that rain is the norm. Or in the middle of a flood to forget that floods rarely happen. Or when bad news comes from the doctor to forget that, for most of us, this comes after many years of relatively good health.

The flower doesn't dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.

We work so hard to get somewhere, to realize a dream, to arrive at some destination, that we often forget that though some satisfaction may be waiting at the end of our endurance and effort, there is great and irreplaceable aliveness in the steps along the way.

It's a tough lesson: There is no summit that comes before you expect it.

Never date a woman you can hear ticking.

In life things often go wrong, and the future rarely happens the way you think it will.

Great souls suffer in silence. JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER During

People try nonviolence for a week, and when it 'doesn't work,' they go back to violence, which hasn't worked for centuries.

One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get an answer from someone until 5 o'clock tomorrow. There is always an excuse. Living 40 or 50 years like that doesn't get too exciting after a while.

So many silent battles are waged By those who sit alone and wait, and by those who delay.

The Hill I have come this far on my own legs, missing the bus, missing taxis, climbing always. One foot in front of the other, that is the way I do it. It does not bother me, the way the hill goes on. Grass beside the road, a tree rattling its black leaves. So what? The longer I walk, the farther I am from everything. One foot in front of the other. The hours pass. One foot in front of the other. The years pass. The colors of arrival fade. That is the way I do it.

I believe That someone is already there and is waiting For the pale appearance of another.

I look at the trees and the birds and I know it's not true. I'm not yet sure how to do it, but I'm going to learn.

The distance doesn't matter. Just think about your next step.

The Alps had taught him not to fret and whine at difficult circumstances. It was a waste of energy.

Sometimes you just have to have faith.

our job in life is to endure, to be kind, and to constantly put the past behind us and not dwell too much on the future. If you must look back, try to find the beauty and the benefit in every cruelty done to you. If you must think about the future, try to have no expectations about it. Trust in God to guide you through.

God giveth, and God taketh away. Sometimes in the same day.