Quotes About Patience

It was an act of devotion. A little like writing or loving someone — it doesn't always feel worthwhile, but not giving up somehow creates unexpected meaning over time.

I was going to die and it was taking forever.

I always had to resist the urge to go to him like a wife, as if we'd already been a couple for a hundred thousand lifetimes.

I was patience defined, patience misspelled, patience sounded out slowly, letter by letter, with the t pronounced "shh.

The longer I stood there, the longer I had to stand there. It was intricate and exponential. I looked like I was doing nothing, but really I was as busy as a physicist or a politician. I was strategizing my next move. That my next move was always not to move didn't make it any easier.

I had written the same word seven thousand times attempting to alchemize time.

I always had to resist the urge to go to him like a wife, as if we'd already been a couple for a hundred thousand lifetimes. Caveman and cavewoman. King and queen. Nuns

In my essence, I am a stone, unmoving for ten thousand years, unless picked up and moved.

Just a sec. Just two months. Just a lifetime. Just a sec.

Long intros are cool because there's a little bit of anticipation, you know?

Developing a program that will serve you a lifetime is not an instant fix. Attitude shifts take much longer, but when they take, they tend to take for good.

For this reason, three months is the usual time to find your way. But you must enjoy the ride.

When you walk behind officials, Follow at a proper distance. When you enter a man's house. And he's busy with someone before you, Sit with your hand over your mouth. Do not ask him for anything, Only do as he tells you, Beware of rushing to the table Be weighty and very dignified, Do not speak of secret things, Who hides his thought shields himself. Do not say things recklessly, When you sit with one who's hostile.

There is no speedy advance except at its proper time. - Alan Henderson Gardiner

Trust not the morrow before it has come; none knows the trouble in it.

When you drink with a drunkard. Take when his heart is content. THE INSTRUCTION ADDRESSED TO KAGEMNI Papyrus Prisse, pp. 1-2 Fragment

No hasty man attains excellence, No impatient man is leaned upon.

Don't brood on what has not yet come, nor rejoice at what has not yet happened. The patient man prolongs friendship; he who destroys a case will not be trusted.

Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change people's ways. If you must change them, you have to understand that it will take a long time.

Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.

Forget perfect on the first try. In the face of frustration, your best tool is a few deep breaths, and remembering that you can do anything once you've practed two hundred times.

Man sollte nie auf Wunder hoffen, es sei denn, man kann sich darauf verlassen, dass sie wirklich eintreffen.

Hrasta se kloni, pod bukvu se skloni.

Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.