Quotes About Patience

It's funny - when I first started as an actor, obviously there were long periods of being idle and all you want to do is work. So if I ever get the compulsion to feel like I should complain or feel like I want to take a break, I just remember how I was before and be very grateful for it.

I've gone periods of maybe four months without writing anything, but it's not a problem. It just means something's building inside you, and it'll build and it'll build, and at some point it'll come out, and it does, and it usually comes out in three or four songs, and you play it that way, really.

I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.

There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.

You don't win games by batting long periods of time.

You don't get many periods in your life when it all goes your way.

Perseverance is my motto!

It's a combination of how much efforts you put in, how much you're working on a daily basis on your goals and it also has to do with a bit of luck. It's difficult but you've to be very patient. The main thing is perseverance.

There's something to be said for perseverance.

Cricket is not rocket science. Bowlers often get wickets through perseverance, accuracy and being patient rather than trying to blast opposition teams out.

To really be conscious of how long the journey is, be patient, push yourself, persevere, and always be working on your craft while waiting for your break. That's what I'm still working on, having done this for 20 years now.

If you persevere long enough, if you do the right things long enough, the right things will happen.

I still have a belief and a faith that some great things are still going to happen in my career. If I didn't believe that, it makes no sense for me to be out there, and on top of that, I know this is a period of time that God wants me to persevere through.

It's after college that I started to tell myself that you have to persevere, and you have to sit in discomfort and let all the doubts and questions you have... they sometimes just have to sit around you, and you can't answer them.

Sometimes you need to get bored but when you get bored you persist in what you're doing and you get better.

Persistence pays off.

I think all musicians have at one time or another experienced one physical problem or another. I have had tendinitis a couple of times, so I try to be really careful. It takes patience and persistence to overcome injury.

I'm not the most patient person in the world. I am one of the most persistent people in the world.

One thing of the many things that I know about Jesse Jackson, he is persistent.

When you have been persistent for as long as I have been, you have to exercise a certain amount of caution, but I want to do everything.

A lot of the guys worry about their form. For me, it is just about being persistent and patient.

You have to be persistent.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

Never judge a person if you don't know him.