Quotes About Patience

The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

History does not usually make real sense until long afterward.

I had a history for starting something and maybe getting halfway done. Then I'd see the same thing I was doing on the bestseller list! My ideas were right, but I hadn't done them fast enough.

There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.

You have to understand what market history looks like. What market history tells you is that the very, very best investments are made when things look the worst.

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

No one missed more basketball in the history of NBA than I did. I played 14 seasons, on the roster for 14 years, and I missed more than nine-and-a-half full seasons.

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home.

Good prayers never come creeping home. I am sure I shall receive either what I ask, or what I should ask.

Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping.

I could dance with you until the cows come home. On second thought I'd rather dance with the cows until you come home.

It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.

A walk is as good as a home run.

The Bible says "faith without works is nothing" so destiny is great, fate is great, faith is great - but you still have to work at it. I don't just sit at home and wait for it all to unfold.

We long to be found, hoping our searchers have not given up and gone home.

I'm seeing the ball well. I'm not trying for home runs. I'm trying to hit to right field more. When I do that, the home run comes.

Am I willing to go to Mars? Yes, but I'm not willing to spend nine months getting there, then wait 18 more months until the planets align to come home.

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run.

The home is where part of the family waits until the others are through with the car.

Kiss till the cow comes home.

Just because you didn't get your way, don't take your ball and go home.

If you act anxiously to hasten your results, you delay their arrival. Calm poise reveals the shortest route home.