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Quotes About Patience

I don't care very much for miniatures. I don't try to beat my opponents quickly because if they are strong, I think I should respect them. It is too risky to play sharply to beat them in 20 moves.
~ Bent Larsen
Extremely large greens breed slovenly play. When any green ceases to command respect, it loses its value as a test of that rarest of all strokes, the shot home.
~ A. W. Tillinghast
One press account said I was an overnight success. I thought that was the longest night I've ever spent.
~ Sandra Cisneros
I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer.
~ Jenny Agutter
To wait, to patiently sit in the dark without knowing what the outcome will be, to protect and respect that which has yet no clear form - all these are aspects of the womb.
~ Jalaja Bonheim
To the old our mouths are always partly closed; we must swallow our obvious retorts and listen. They sit above our heads, on life's raised dais, and appeal at once to our respect and pity.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Don't try to make yourself marketable, you'll be surprised to see yourself at the bottom. Stay incognito, and people will peruse the whole world looking for you, by that time, you'll be at the top.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
I will win, not immediately.... But Definately...!!!!!!
~ Akshay Dalvi
Meet me where the sky touches the sea. Wait for me where the world begins.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Your love made it all worth waiting for some like you.
~ Dean Martin
I can't give you the sunset, but I can give you the night.
~ Erin McCarthy, High Stakes
Never run after a man or a bus, there's always another one in five minutes.
~ Cherry Adair, Kiss and Tell
Plant your love and let it grow.
~ Eric Clapton
I've spent a life time waiting for the right time, now that you're near, the time is here at last.
~ Elvis Presley
Between now and then, 'til I see you again, I'll be loving you.
~ Collin Raye
I vowed after that day that I would be your hero too, no matter how long it took
~ Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
Angel was someone he'd never imagined having in his life, but always hoped for. She was more than worth the wait, and he was never letting her go.
~ Katie Reus, Sweetest Surrender
He'd been saving up his love for years and years, waiting for the right personto spend his fortune on.
~ John Mark Green
I've worked with freshmen that were easier than this.
~ Kathy Bryson, Restless Spirits
I get as much fun as the next man from whaling the ball as hard as I can and catching it squarely on the button. But from sad experience I learned not to try this in a round that meant anything.
~ Bobby Jones
Sometimes you need to run away just to see who will come after you.
~ Lisa Page Brooks
It bothers me that no one has the patience to deal with someone who is just sad.
~ Emily Haines
Don't promise when you're happy, Don't reply when you're angry, and don't decide when you're sad.
~ Ziad K. Abdelnour
She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time.
~ Stephen Chbosky