Quotes About Patience

Half a baked cake may not be enough to feed a wedding party, but it's enough to taste and leave everyone looking forward to the rest of the cake.

Great art is never finished, only abandoned. — Leonardo da Vinci

Great art is never finished, only abandoned.

Quick words did not always mean a quick mind.

Not even generals can stop the rain.

care about right now is how long this is

That's right, kid. Never play an ace if a two will do.

Our bellies are empty and our patience is short...submit to us and we will make of you a great quiche!' 'Again with the QUICHE?! What kind of self-respecting monster would eat a DAINTY PASTRY DISH?! STEW is what we will make of their bones!' 'Don't get greedy on me! There's three of them! I just want the little one for my quiche!' 'It was nothing to do with greed! It's a matter of principle! MONSTERS DO NOT EAT QUICHE!

That's right, kid. Never play an ace when a two will do.

at least things didn't appear to be moving in a "Let's snap the wishbone" direction.

For the next few minutes I reviewed my available options, and I came up with the following plan: hope that somebody showed up to rescue me. Or,

Some things came to you late, but late was better than never.

Hay preguntas que pueden acabar contigo si la respuesta se te niega el suficiente tiempo.

Sometimes you had to keep things from people just so they wouldn't do the first thing that came into their heads.

You don't know what to say. You won't know what to say for a long time. Your reply was so many years ago.

Never skip a step. Skip a step, you'll find five more new ones waiting ahead of you." The

Hellooo Pelican, come in, come in? No? Okay. You just be that way, you petulant bird.

If the peace lily stops flowering, just be patient. It will bloom again.

All negative thoughts – anger, fear, passion, compulsive craving -- tend to be fast. If we could see the mind when it is caught in such thoughts, we would really see it racing. But positive thoughts like love, patience, tenderness, compassion, and understanding are slow - not turbulent, rushing brooks of thinking, so to speak but broad rivers that are calm, clear, and deep.

He lay beside me all those years while I turned and twisted myself to fit beside him...

One needs time to free oneself of wrong convictions. If it happens too suddenly, they go on festering.

The sorrows of the world are, because we live too little in the future.

Bite your lips, little brother...Don't cry. Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later. The day will come but not now...Wait. Clench your teeth and wait...

There are moments when I think it will never end, that it will last indefinitely. It's like the rain. Here the rain, like everything else, suggests permanence and eternity. I say to myself: it's raining today and it's going to rain tomorrow and the next day, the next week and the next century.