Quotes About Patience

Si el hombre conociera el porvenir descuidaría el presente.

Child, the more you want to hurry life up, the slower it gets.

have got Lee just where I want him; he must fight me on my own ground." So he waited to see what would happen—which was usually a fatal thing to do in the vicinity of Robert E. Lee.

Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.

In looking for humor, keep in mind this guideline: Sometimes it takes a little time to see the humor in your upsets you may not find something to laugh about immediately.

We live what God wants when He wants us to. He withholds joy for a time, then lavishes it all around. He shelters us from pain until He knows we'll live through it. The point is, what matters is this moment. How precious, precious time is. The past had to happen, and we cannot stop the future. Why, then, should we live with a spirit of fear and regret?

The great thing about unrequited love is it's the only kind that lasts.

You learned that if you're tired enough, you can sleep sitting up. That the unendurable is perfectly endurable if you just take it a minute at a time, and when the alternative is no more minutes ever...

Oh, Topher," Veronica said with even less patience than before. "Only a man would think that regrets were a liability.

The whole summer lay ahead of us-time to rest, time to wait. And when the future comes-no matter what comes with it-I'll be smarter. I'll be stronger. I'll be ready.

Do you have any idea how hard it is to tail an eighty year-old woman Its hard. Really hard. Really...slow. -Grabrielle

Even the longest con was never more than an assortment of moments that were in themselves very very short.

Waiting. Like it or not, it's a skill all spies have to master eventually.

real strength is not hitting when what you most want to do is kill.

Even the best thief in the world can't steal time.

I'll be here when you get back.

Time. I would have gone somewhere to buy time.

But maybe because sometimes a girl just really needs to snap at someone who she knows will forgive her later.

Spies are wise. Spies are strong. But, most of all, spies are patient.

Hush, little princess, wait and see. No one's gonna know that you are me.

Here's the thing you need to know about surveillance: it's boring. Sure, sometimes we blow stuff up and jump off buildings and/or moving trains, but most of the time we just hang around waiting for something to happen (a fact that almost never makes it into the movies), so I might have felt pretty silly if I were a normal girl and not a highly trained secret-agent-type person as I sat on that park bench, trying to act normal when, by definition, I'm anything but.

But why?" Maddie sounded like someone who had been waiting her entire life to ask that question. She looked like someone who would wait a lifetime more for an answer.

The next day is a blur of dress fittings and dance lessons and trips to various salons with Ms. Chancellor. Some of her instruments of torture are hot. Some are cold. Some are hard and some are soft. All are dangerous, I decide. If the army knew about curling irons, basic training might look very, very different.

It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.