Quotes About Patience

I mean, why? Why did I go on believing? Did it make sense? Why did I go on thinking, even when [he] slammed me around, that if you are good enough, patient enough, for long enough, your reward will come?

If you have the patience to wait and watch, history will reshape truth (weakest of all forces, and weightless) in the image of opinion. What really happened will cease to matter and, eventually, cease to exist.

Someday I'll understand more of these things. At the moment I just have to think them through. Not everything you want to know is explained properly on Google.

Lassan azért kezdek rájönni, hogy sokszor azokra érdemes odafigyelni, akik nem járatják folyton a szájukat.

But the truth is that nothing distracted me from waiting. The.Time.Simply.Passed.

The hours passed as they did the rest of the year, until whatever it was we were waiting for commenced.

if you hold on, if you force yourself as hard as you can to find some kind of patience in the middle of all your impatience, things can change.

Everyone simply had to wait patiently in order to lose the people they loved one by one, all the while acting as if they weren't waiting for that at all.

the rest of life—that imperfect thing—waiting.

When do I stop? When I'm tewnty-five? Thirty? Thirty-five? Forty? Or right this minute? Nobody tell s you how long you should keep doing something before you give up forever.

Everything you do, it'll all feel really slow for a long time. But looking back, much later, it will have seemed like it was fast.

I wondered whether he might ever love me, and how I might rush that love into existence.

I hadn't known that if you hold on, if you force yourself as hard as you can to find some kind of patience in the middle of all your impatience, things can change. It's big, and it's always incredibly messy. But there's no way around the mess.

Ages fourteen to eighteen, a girl needs something to kill all that time, that endless itchy waiting, every hour, every day for something — anything — to begin.

Impatient men are generous ones. Or haven't you learned that by now?

I leaned my head back, and waited for the sunrise.

Time has that funny way of smoothing out the rough edges of things, even ones that hurt a little bit. Or a lot.

Whatever task you're set, find some way to love it. Sunny wondered if Josiah's words applied to standing with a face of stone so the person in front of her wouldn't know how much she wanted to scream.

Sometimes you have to take your time to get your reward.

All we need is right here. The two of us will find a way to make things work. That it will all be okay.

Prayers are answered in one of four ways," she said. "Yes. No. I have something else in mind. And . . ." She paused long enough for my impatience to show. "And what's the fourth answer?" "Wait," she said.

It kind of makes me wish that the worst thing that will ever happen to me would just hurry up and happen already. That way I could live the rest of my life in bliss, if only because I know how much worse things could be.

The average american spends six months of his or her life waiting for red lights to turn green. six months wasted, waiting for permission to move on.

Where are you in your cycle? Oh, WHO CARES? Let's get you two BUMPING right away. We don't want another trimester to go by with a FLAT TUMMY. And not to put any pressure on you or anything, but it would be just BREEDY if you could deliver the goods by next March.