Quotes About Patience

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is not Watzisname,' said Watzisname, patiently. 'I have told

If you face trouble in the right way something always turns up to make things better.

Really, I'm trying to care, Artemis, really. But I thought it was all supposed to be over when the fat lady sings. Well, she's singing, but it doesn't appear to be over

Wait, said Butler. Just wait, Holly. Artemis has a plan. He squinted through the green dome. What is your plan, Artemis? All Artemis could do was smile and shrug.

I have no time for babbling foolishness." "Don't be so hasty," said Victor. "There's always time for babbling.

I wear a name tag to help people find me. It saves time when you're dealing with idiots.

Butler," he called, his voice thin and childlike in the wind. "Yes, Artemis, what?" "If something goes wrong, wait for me. No matter how it looks, I will return. I will bring them all back.

Certain battles were won by retreating.

Hogwarts, it is not, thought the Doctor, realising that no one would appreciate this reference for almost a century.

Just a minute, Miss Frazetti, I'm getting dressed.' 'Hurry it up, Mo,' snapped Carla, her voice crackly through the cheap speakers. 'I'm getting old here.

it's always darkest before the dawn." Artemis looked at her. "What dawn? We're in the Arctic, remember?

I outta get one of those flip signs, Vern thought. "No homicides in: 2923 days.

Sometimes I feel like people aren't listening to me. I spend ninety minutes up here talking about the dangers of time travel, advising you to stay the hell away from time travel, and the first question I get is: 'Do you think time travel will be available commercially?' Then again, I spend every waking hour bent over quantum equations, so I guess I don't listen to me, either. - Professor Charles Smart

Recuerda que debes conducirte en la vida como en un banquete. ¿Un plato ha llegado hasta ti? Extiende tu mano sin ambición, tómalo con modestia. ¿Se aleja? No lo retengas. ¿No ha llegado aún? No lances desde lejos tu deseo, sino que espera a que el plato esté a tu lado.

Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.

Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.

Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth.

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

A guide, on finding a man who has lost his way, brings him back to the right path—he does not mock and jeer at him and then take himself off. You also must show the unlearned man the truth, and you will see that he will follow. But so long as you do not show it him, you should not mock, but rather feel your own incapacity.

Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

For sheep don't throw up the grass to show the shepherds how much they have eaten; but, inwardly digesting their food, they outwardly produce wool and milk.