Quotes About Patience

Everybody acts like the future is so far away, when really every moment that passes is the future.

Never fight tomorrow's fight today,

It's like living near a bakery but never eating any bread. Every day you walk the streets, the smell of it in your nose, your stomach growling, but no matter how many corners you turn, you can never enter the actual store. The

The process of waiting and enduring qualifies you for the next step—the step into your destiny.

the road that leads to blessing sometimes—often—goes through valleys and dark places.

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.

Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which one fills up faster.

Know how to live with the time that is given you.

Be yourself. Be true to that, to your heart. Patience. See what happens if you step back instead of bounding forward.

There lies the whole crux of the matter; what cannot be prevented must be borne

Hard work never killed anybody!" Sometimes when Aunt Hester droned on about it I used to think to myself, Maybe not, but hearing about it is killing me! Of course I daren't say it, and of course nobody ever did die of boredom or great-aunt Hester would have been knee-deep in corpses.

Time, thus unbroken by things to look forward to or back on, stretched endlessly.

Even though he saw an entire field covered with flowers, Chihaya never thought to pick them. Instead, he took me to see the place where they were blooming.

Pro-rated at 500 at-bats a year that means that for two years out of the fourteen I played, I never even touched the ball.

He who keeps his cool best wins.

Culture is something that must grow. You cannot build a tree; you can only plant it, and care for it, and wait for it to mature . . .

6. Slowness of movement is the key to awareness, and awareness is the key to learning. As

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.

Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Why always "not yet"?  Do flowers in spring say "not yet"? 

He knocked absurdly on the skull like a man impatient for a door to open. His eyes glazed over. He appeared to be in the grasp of something beyond the reach of ordinary mortals. 'Time is slowing,' he said in a leaden voice. 'Each moment grows and fattens like a drop of rain on a window sash, waiting to fall.

I will not feel, I will not feel, until I have to

Many of us would probably be better fishermen if we did not spend so much time watching and waiting for the world to become perfect