Quotes About Patience

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll any stones out of his way, and must calmly accept his lot even if they roll a few more into it.

Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON.

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.

I'm in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren't, either. Nobody goes faster than the legs they have. If where I want to go is far away, I'm not there in an instant. (6/20/1919)

I'm in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren't, either. Nobody goes faster than the legs they have. If where I want to go is far away, I'm not there in an instant.

I'm in no hurry. What for? The sun and moon aren't in a hurry: they're right. Hurrying is believing people can get past their legs, Or that, jumping, they can land past their shadow. No; I don't know how to hurry.

Dignity cannot wait for better times.

El que está enamorado -o agarrado- no puede opinar demasiado, tan sólo cruzar los dedos y esperar lo mejor.

I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have unlimited patience. They will wait for me till the end of my days.

graba nu scurteaz? drumul, ci îl face doar mai obositor.

One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of a March thaw, is the spring.

He who hopes for spring with upturned eye never sees so small a thing as Draba. He who despairs of spring with downcast eye steps on it, unknowing. He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance.

A cardinal, whistling spring to a thaw but later finding himself mistaken, can retrieve his error by resuming his winter silence. A chipmunk, emerging for a sunbath but finding a blizzard, has only to go back to bed. But a migrating goose, staking two hundred miles of black night on the chance of finding a hole in the lake, has no easy chance for retreat. His arrival carries the conviction of a prophet who has burned his bridges.

Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.

Ninguna dificultad se compara a la de explicar pacientemente a un a persona mediocre la razón de nuestro desencasillamiento. De nuestro disconformismo. De nuestra INMORALIDAD.

Someone in the garden is delaying the passing of time.

No le pida nunca nada a la vida. Espere... y algún día la vida le dará una sorpresa maravillosa.

Mi madre lo decía: hay un reloj de esperar y otro de despedirse; el de esperar siempre atrasa.

Il pigro - Sapendo di essere nato per dare origine ad una farfalla, mentre gli altri si rinchiudevano in laboriosi e oscuri bozzoli, il verme si mise a saltare il più in alto possibile, credendo che così facendo avrebbe fatto uscire le ali con più facilità

Esperar lo que nunca ocurrirá es una muerte demasiado horrible.

Sí, vam decidir esperar i de tant fer-ho el temps se'ns en va anar de les mans.

Passa un segon com passa tota una vida quan passem la vida esperant una llum que triga.

Ma, sai, se c'è una cosa che la vita mi ha insegnato è che aspettare ciò che non accadrà mai è una morte troppo orribile.

Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you Submit to your grief -- your time for joy will come, believe me.