Quotes About Patience

Some people say you have to work with everything, but there's a time and a place. If it feels like a knot, wait. It will come up again when you and the universe are ready.

if you're going to wait to get all the information you think you need before you act, you'll never act because there's an infinite amount of information out there.

Mrs. Lambchop sighed and shook her head. "You're at the office all day, having fun," she said. "You don't realize what I go through with the boys. They're very difficult." Kids are like that," Mr. Lambchop said. "Phases. Be patient, dear.

about the tree.

Grace is what matters, in anything... That's a quality I admire quite greatly. It keeps you from reaching for the gun too quickly, keeps you from destroying things too foolishly. It keeps you alive and it keeps you open for more understanding.

So I'll wait for you... And I'll burn Will I ever see your sweet return? Oh, will I ever learn? Oh, Lover, you should've come over Cause it's not too late.

Fine," said Khadgar, looking at the books. "I'll just sit here and figure out how to tame an hourglass.

Troubles, like babies, grow larger by nursing. — LADY HOLLAND

hopefully Mr. Blakely won't be too mad when he sees his

Sometimes friends get on each other's nerves.

Life's too short for doubt, and yet too long for faith.

Faith is not just about what we know, but in trusting in what we don't know. Unless we acknowledge that tension, we will never stand firm when second choices threaten to unsettle us. (Singing in Babylon - Finding Purpose In Life's Second Choices)

Anything can become music if listened to long enough

Sometimes you need to slow down to go fast.

Any time you see what looks like a breakthrough, it is always the end result of a long series of little things, done consistently over time.

The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step." —Chinese proverb I

Rome ne s'est pas faite en un jour. (Rome wasn't built in a day.)" —ancient French proverb

The slight edge can carve the Grand Canyon. It can do anything. But you have to give it enough time for the power of time to kick in. The right choices and wrong choices you make at the moment will have little or no noticeable impact on how your day goes for you. Nor tomorrow, nor the next day. No applause, no cheers, no screams, no life-or-death

No success is immediate. Nor is any failure instantaneous. They are both products of the Slight Edge.

You see, there is no magic bullet, quick fix, or quantum leap method to reach success.

Impossible just takes a little longer.

No success is immediate, no collapse is sudden. They are both the result of the slight edge accruing momentum over time.

Hoping for "the big break"—the breakthrough, the magic bullet—is not only futile, it's dangerous, because it keeps you from taking the actions you need to create the results you want.

The things that create success in the long run don't look like they're having any impact at all in the short run.