Quotes About Patience

Stay in your lane. If you're good enough, people will move to you.

A lot of good things can come from not expecting anything.

My ma says You can't unspill a stew." "She also says Undoing a wrong is greater than doing a right." "You know, Ma is very good at saying two things at once.

The Internet has obviously wiped music off the human map - killed the record shop, and killed the patience of labels who consider debut sales of 300,000 to not be good enough.

There are good and bad movies, and long ones, and pretentious ones, and fun ones, and it's kind of healthy not just being able to switch off after ten minutes, but have patience.

No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.

If there was no other proof of the infinite patience of God, a very good one could be found in His toleration of the pictures that are painted of Him.

When you have got a thing where you want, it is a good thing to leave it where it is.

It took me twenty years of living with my father to accept the idea that being good could be good enough.

It's highly virtuous to say we'll be good, but wecan't do it all at once, and it takes a long pull, a strongpull, and a pull all together before some of us even get ourfeet set in the right way.

I like playing. I wouldn't be a good coach. I don't have the patience to be a coach.

Even the worst days have an ending, and the best days have a beginning.

Trying to make things work in government is sometimes like trying to sew a button on a custard pie.

Democratical States must always feel before they can see: it is this that makes their Governments slow, but the people will be right at last.

Not only did he [Dean Acheson] not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer them at all.

But we don't have to react. That's what I'm saying. A police force, like a government, should be above that. Just because we're provoked doesn't mean we have to act. -- Still Life

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. (Don't overdo it.)

In the school of the woods, there is no graduation day.

It takes a while. It's gonna take you a while. It's normal to take a while. You just have to fight your way through that.

My favorite animal is the turtle. The reason is that in order for the turtle to move, it has to stick its neck out.

Learn to trust yourself. That's very vital. ... Just stand with yourself. Remember, in his lifetime, Van Gogh sold only two paintings. I personally sold even fewer.

I wish that someone had said to me that it's normal to feel lost for a little while.

Are you willing to stay right where you are and let the Lord do great things through you, though no one may seem to notice at all?

Expect great things from God, receive great things from God. Expect little from God, receive little from God.