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Quotes About Patience

In addition there are those who do the right thing but give up too readily. They will drill until noon, but give up because it took too long and it is getting too hot; at 1:00 P.M. they would have struck oil! They will drill through the sand until they hit rock, but then they quit; it has become too difficult. Three feet deeper and they would have hit a gusher! Hope leads to perseverence that gives one the patience to continue in spite of delay or difficulty (I Thessalonians 1:3).
~ Jay E. Adams
Knowing that there will be a way out, an end to the problem, is itself reassuring.
~ Jay E. Adams
snail's pace. Hanna shook her
~ Jay Giles
But as me mum used to say, 'It's always darkest before the dawn.' Things will get better; I'm sure of it." "What worries me is something my dad used to say." "Oh?" "For things to get better they must first get far worse." Her eyes widened. "Oh, dear." I had the feeling my dad knew more than her mum.
~ Jay Giles
And the very, very worst thing you can do to angry cats or people is tell them to calm down.
~ Jay Heinrichs
I didn't get my first car until I was 22. It was a BMW 1602 and now I've got it back I'm waiting to restore it.
~ Jay Kay
The key to a long and healthy marriage is that, honestly, there's nothing worth fighting about.
~ Jay Leno
leave yourself open to accept things rather than anxiously searching for them. You
~ Jay Maisel
Sometimes, sitting there on the cushion failing to watch your breath, it can feel like you're the only weirdo weird enough to be wasting your time in this way. But you're not! There are generations of weirdos, monasteries full of them, and we have the benefit of their accumulated wisdom.
~ Jay Michaelson
Life just throws you places, and if you wait, if you listen, you can see the blessings.
~ Jaycee Clark
When the rosebud is still forming a little green ball, do you berate it for not being in full bloom? Hell, no!
~ Jayne Williams
It bothered me that whatever was waiting wasn't waiting for me
~ Jean Anouilh
Please, do remember what I told you, and don't open the script until I decide you should. You must first spend a great deal of time getting to know the subtext for the character as it develops, and making it secure. The actual words must only serve the action, they are one of the external
~ Jean Benedetti
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
~ Jean Cocteau
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
~ Jean Cocteau
Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
~ Jean Cocteau
There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Patience is a virtue, Virtue is a grace; Both put together Make a very pretty face
~ Jean de La Fontaine
We believe no evil till the evil's done.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
A hungry stomach cannot hear.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
Lai??ez dire les ?ots, le ?avoir a ?on prix.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
Fiindc? era mereu în întârziere, sfâr?ea câteodat? prin a fi în avans.
~ Jean d'Ormesson
Mi se p?rea pe atunci c? timpul nu se mai sfâr?ea ?i c? trebuia gr?bit neîncetat spre a l?sa loc viitorului. (...) A? fi vrut acum s?-l las s? se odihneasc? pu?in, s?-l v?d încetidindu-?i pasul (...).
~ Jean d'Ormesson