Quotes About Patience

I thought I could wait, but I can't. Sorry.

Me: How can I want you then when I don't want you now?

I thought: Just one step. One step at a time. You don't have to do them all at once.

The bad moments always have a way of coming around again, way too soon.

Not here. Not now

The great Anna Faris once said that the secret of surviving high school is to "lay low.

God resolves all given time

The trouble with me, he thought unhappily, is that I have been about the world long enough to know that God's plans for us, however infallibly good, may not take the form that we expect and demand.

When you have done everything else, perfecting a conventual herb-garden is a fine and satisfying thing to do. He could not conceive of coming to this stasis having done nothing else whatever.

I've learned if you're ever angry enough to hit somebody, don't do it. Cool down and get yourself a pistol.

Time lost its meaning after a while and became only something that dragged hope with it as it went nowhere. Sometime

Life does not always gives us the choices that we want

Laurel for you—can you stay on?

Do not permit yourself to fall in love with the end-game play to the exclusion of entire games. It is well to have the whole story of how it happened; the complete play, not the denouement only. Do not embrace the rag-time and vaudeville of chess.

Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.

How long must we wait for the lilies to bud?

She might have liked to try to strangle him with those slender fingers of hers, but she wanted to make a job of it and this great patience with which she waited for her claws to grow was in itself a form of enjoyment.

Jean-Louis had never had a day's illness in his life. He was tall and as gnarled as an oak. The sun had baked his skin until it had the colour and toughness and stillness of a tree. With advancing years, he had lost his tongue. He now never spoke, considering such an activity pointless.

The more grievous the sin, the greater the repentance, God was bidding His time.

Elle était là, patiente, seule, redoutable dans sa douceur. There she was, patiently waiting, alone, formidable in her gentleness.

He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!

It was a strange way of killing, not by inches, but by fractions of hairbreadths, to beguile me with the spectre of a hope, through eighteen years!

Earnshaw was not to be civilized with a wish, and my young lady was no philosopher, and no paragon of patience; but both their minds tending to the same point—one loving and desiring to esteem, and the other loving and desiring to be esteemed—they contrived in the end to reach it.

It is a long fight, I wish it were over!