Quotes About Patience

Don't count your chickens before they turn into KFC

Anything can happen. Just let it be. Accept it, and let it be. Life will sort itself out if you allow it to.

Catch more flies with honey . . . although I'd never quite understood the value of the expression. Mother had used it all the time while we were growing up and even as a child, I'd questioned why anybody would want to catch flies unless you were a goblin and used them for croutons. Linda

If you wait overnight to fight back, all it means is the celebration drink is one day less fresh.

It's remarkable how we go on year after year, doing the same old things. We get tired and bored, and ask when they'll come for us

O Time: hold still awhile. I have so much more work to do. There are so many things I want to express. But time just keeps ticking away, and the earth never for an instant ceases to turn.

Life seems to me a preparation for something that never happens.

A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.

Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

They say there are flowers that bloom only once every hundred years. Why shouldn't there be some that bloom only once every thousand, every ten thousand years? Maybe we just haven't heard about them up to now because this very day is that once-in-a-thousand-years.

Dicen que hay unas flores que sólo se abren y florecen cada cien años. Y ¿por qué no han de haber otras que florezcan una vez cada mil e incluso cada diez mil años? Quizá no lo hayamos sabido por la simple razón de que este «una vez cada mil años» acontece precisamente hoy.

Dicen que hay flores que sólo despuntan una vez cada cien años. ¿Y por qué no hay otras que florezcan cada mil o cada diez mil años? Tal vez hasta ahora no lo hayamos sabido por la sencilla razón de que esa vez-cada-mil-años toca precisamente hoy.

The speed of a tongue should always go some seconds behind the speed of thought, never the other way around.

They say there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why not suppose the existence of flowers that bloom only once a thousand years? We may have known nothing about them until now only because today is the "once in a thousand years"?

We must finish this construction and not start building anew.

Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.

The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never.

A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine.

Don't spit into the well--you might drink from it later.

He who can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.

Hope for miracles, but don't rely on one.

You might not trust me. Please give me a chance and time. I will prove myself for all of you.

I will exercise patience and will provide all facts to the general public.

A real dreamer must have a mutual trust with time.