Quotes About Patience

What Your Speed Means

Patience is a virtue but I don't have the time.

Put yourself in God's hands tonight and pray that He will lead you in the right direction. Then simply let go and trust Him, believing that you will sense God's direction and that He will bring you the peace you need.

There's nothing like waiting on the move of God; when you move you'll see God in action

Rats—humans too—continue to push on the bar in the cage of our existence looking for a reward past the point of reason because, every once in a while, something unthinkably delicious comes down the tube.

As I like to say, it's important to be right at the end of a meeting, not at the beginning.

Too often people tend to think about what they'll say next when someone else is speaking. I developed a practice of listening all the way through and waiting three seconds to respond—it's amazing how that small change allows you to really hear what someone is saying . . . or not saying.

at least to wait until your failing health qualifies you for an enhanced annuity.

A man's wife can hold him devilish uneasy, if she begins to scold and fret, and perplex him, at a time when he has a full load for a railroad car on his mind already.

I went without when I had no money, probably, 'cause of that...

If we've deluded ourselves into thinking that our angry mass emails or conversation-stopping talking points serve as a ministry or carry out the purposes of God, we need to slow down and take a breath.

If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer.

Every moment waited is a moment wasted....

patience was not just a manner, it was the very form of seminar teaching. Columbia's core curriculum had been designed not to enshrine the authority of the lecturing professor (that was something done at Harvard) but to reach understanding through discussion, however clumsy and uncertain. Till this moment, I never knew myself. . . . Vanity, not love has been my folly!

Listen for an hour, speak for a minute

What life has become, as Andreas said. And the only answer I have to that—the only one I've ever had—is what life could be. I have to admit: I'm no longer holding my breath.

As my Uncle Theodosius always said: never chase women who are a lot smarter than you. You won't catch them, or, what's worse, you might.

I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Lili could remember that, the feeling of biting down on one's thoughts and feelings and storing them up for no one.

Can we, then, set aside the impatience that the Internet tends to breed, and the habits of being distracted which our highly compacted modern lives create, in order to focus on what really matters?

Así son las cosas: siempre vamos con cinco minutos de retraso con respecto a nuestras conversaciones sentimentales.

Intentaba pensar en los silencios entre segundo y segundo, cosa tan imposible como caminar entre las gotas de agua en un día lluvioso.

Bueno, comprendo: usted no habla. Es raro, habría jurado lo contrario. Tiene pinta de tener sus teorías. Quizás me las cuente después, ¿es así? Me hará una síntesis. Si tenemos tiempo. Con lo que yo he vivido, necesitaríamos por lo menos un siglo para este análisis. Un siglo incluyendo los días feriados.