Quotes About Patience

There is something that needs to happen in my life before I can be at peace (happy, fulfilled, etc.). And I resent that it hasn't happened yet. Maybe my resentment will finally make it happen." "Something happened in the past that should not have happened, and I resent that. If that hadn't happened, I would be at peace now." "Something is happening now that should not be happening, and it is preventing me from being at peace now.

It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living

You do not need to wait for the world to become sane, or for somebody else to become conscious, before you can be enlightened

Waiting is a state of mind. Basically, it means that you want the future; you don't want the present. You don't want what you've got, and you want what you haven't got.

Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

You can always cope with the Now, but you can never cope with the future — nor do you have to. The answer, the strength, the right action or the resource will be there when you need it, not before, not after.

They were running out of suspects and into dead ends. They were running into airtight alibis and out of patience. They were running up one-way alleys and phone bills. They were running down a killer who did not yet exist. They were running around in circles.

BOTTOM LINE: 1. Don't limp for three sessions. 2. Raise bigger pre-flop. 3. Consider re-raising or folding before you call a raise. 4. Want to limp, see Rule One. 5. Seriously, see Rule One.

I believe that, with anything in life, if you have the patience, desire and passion, you can do whatever you set your mind to.

We must have been hunters and gatherers but some of us were just waiters and hopers.

It is always a foolish thing to contemplate suicide; for no matter how dark the future may appear today, tomorrow may hold for us that which will alter our whole life in an instant, revealing to us nothing but sunshine and happiness. So, for my part, I shall always wait for tomorrow.

Tut, tut! I have often admonished my pupils to count ten before speaking. Were I you, Mr. Philander, I should count at least a thousand, and then maintain a discreet silence.

I shall have to believe even though I cannot understand

THREE days crawled slowly out of the east and followed one another across the steaming jungle and over the edge of the world beyond.

Non ho mai seguito valori illusori, come il successo, ma ho cercato e trovato dei punti di forza che mi hanno consentito una concezione più ampia del mondo, una sempre rinnovata capacità di gratitudine nei confronti dei miei simili e una sincera umiltà che mi assiste oggi, mentre dalla mia piccola posizione di vantaggio lungo il cammino che va verso l'alto e non finisce mai, guardo la pazienza ammirevole e il coraggio di quelli che dietro di me lottano ancora.

London waited, waited in patience, orderly, content to stare steadfastly at nothing, deriving no satisfaction for their weakness but the sense of being as near as it was humanly possible to be to the scene of a tragedy.

Noble self-restraint must have something to restrain.

Do you think you're the only one groping? We're all in the dark together. Wait until God please to clear the sky.

That's the trouble with loving a wild thing: You're always left watching the door.

That's the trouble with loving a wild thing: You're always left watching the door. But you also get kind of used to it.

And Rose would have had no time at all on the loom were it not for Widow Hautzig's rheumatism. When her rheumatism was acting up, the widow would take a long rest, sometimes even as much as a fortnight if it was a particularly bad bout. "Thank God for Widow Hautzig's rheumatism," Rose would say every night before bed. Mother once overheard her and scolded her, so Rose was careful to whisper those words to herself from then on.

I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it.

I felt there was no one as kind as you; no one who gave me reasons that I understood for doing what at first seemed so hard and--unnecessary.

Archer reddened to the temples but dared not move or speak: it was as if her words had been some rare butterfly that the least motion might drive off on startled wings, but that might gather a flock if it were left undisturbed.