Quotes About Patience

All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.

Faith sees best in the dark.

God lets you hang out on a limb till the very last second and then rescues you. It builds your trust. If He made it easy all the time, you would never trust Him when you really need to.

He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit, than he who captures a city" (Prov. 16:32).

Take wrongs patiently. Be willing to suffer for doing good (1 Pet. 3:8–17).

Be quick to forgive (Matt. 18:21–35).

He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit, than he who captures a city. Proverbs 16:32

Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in on the other.

For me and Washington, it was like I was in a dark tunnel, and the light was really far away.

You know, one thing I've learned over 40 years is that when you have jobs in Washington, you do it day by day and that's what I'm doing as secretary of defense.

The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.

There's stuff going on in the world right now, which you can't imagine why is this happening; it's crazy. I don't know what the answer is, but if you didn't have faith in the universe that somehow something great would arrive at the end, then we'd all give up, and that would be a waste of everyone's time.

I haven't really found the right person. That sounds like an older person thing to say, but I'm too busy and - not in a bad way - don't want to waste my time.

I want to learn how to boil milk. I somehow manage to over-boil and waste it consistently.

As a person gets older, time gets more interesting. As a kid, you waste so much of it.

One thing I refuse to do is force it. So I've canceled many auditions because nothing has come up, and I don't want to waste anybody's time. God forbid they outright give it to me and I don't connect with it.

It was a waste of time to sit on the bench in London.

Many people think spending an hour or two in the kitchen is a waste of time. But it is a good investment in your spiritual development.

What I learned from my son's birth is that fearing the future is normal but a waste of time.

I'm fortunate enough to have learned not to waste time getting frustrated with my kids, or co-workers, or friends and family for not doing everything I wish they would. If someone doesn't respond to me the way I want them to, I understand that it doesn't have anything to do with me.

If you learned how to make a cloud, your time is not wasted.

I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to a short story, then to a paragraph.