Quotes About Patience

That is why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.

He rubbed his head again. 'Five years is longer than it sounds. So much longer.

Live! That's all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don't know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won't matter if we don't survive these times.

I'm getting better, but so slowly.

When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.

That's all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don't know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won't matter if we don't survive these times.

Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.

Maybe sometimes it takes more courage not to fight. -Makino

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Progress is a fine thing, but it's gone on long enough.

Even the most potent hash When spent eventually becomes ash The most needed now is cash But then, for it you must nt rush

Tida går, forteler dei. Men det er vi som går. Tida blir liggande att ho, og lat henne ligge.

According to research from Laval University in Quebec, time passes most quickly when we're absorbed in an activity; time passes most slowly when we're thinking specifically about how long something is taking—perhaps most often when we're waiting. That's why "the watched pot never boils," even though the watched pot actually takes 9 1/2 minutes to boil,

been waiting all my life to meet you? Well, it applies to children. First as babies, but particularly once they've gotten old enough to have well-defined characters. It's completely true—you realize that you really have been waiting all your life to meet this person. There's nothing to compare to it.

Wind against window—let the words fight it out— As I try to remember: What is it That's so late in coming? What was it I understood so well last night, so well it kissed me, Sweetly, on the forehead?

I wasn't in a hurry. I never have to be in any particular place at any particular time. Let time watch me, not me it.

It is written that there are three things that do not come if you are thinking of them: the Messiah, lost objects, and scorpions.

A large tree, crooked and full of holes, survives for centuries without being cut down, because nothing could possibly be made out of it. This example should raise the spirits of people like us. Everyone knows the profit to be reaped from the useful, but nobody knows the benefit to be gained from the useless.

Once we have reached a certain age, it's hard to be reconciled to the fact that people are always going to be impatient with us.

It takes the Police a long time to establish things that seem obvious.

To be impatient means never really living, being always in the future, in what will happen, but which is after all not yet here. Do not impatient people resemble spirits who are never here in this place, and now, in this very moment, but rather sticking their heads out of life like those wanderers who supposedly, when they found themselves at the end of the world, just looked onward, beyond the horizon? What did they see there? What is it that an impatient person hopes to glimpse?

It did take Odysseus twenty years." "That doesn't matter," the professor replied merrily. "In today's day and age you could do it in two weeks.

No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.

Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.