Quotes About Patience

But all he could really do was his best, each moment. That was what mattered most—even more than the final outcome. Because the final outcome wasn't up to him alone.

The whole book stays put, right there all the time, always the same, with the words perfectly lined up one after another, waiting.

Like the sunrise, some things just have to happen — and all you can really do is watch.

But regardless, Mr. Meinert looked forward to Wednesday night the way a parent looks forward to seeing a child take those first few steps alone — alone, but not really.

It takes three years to build a ship; it takes three centuries to build a tradition.

What do I do next?' 'Maybe it's your time to wait too.' She dug the heels of her boots firmly into the ground and set her shoulders more stiffly against the sea breeze. 'Love is an action you must repeat ceaselessly.

Do you know what the best part of that swim was?" "No." "Knowing that you were on the shore waiting for me.

You're scared and I understand that. I know it's difficult because you want to imagine the ending but you can't even imagine the beginning. But everything will be ok. It just takes time.

each second was a century

Till tomorrow good sir one must but gaze at stars

Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?

when he said one evening, after they had ruined another lasagne, "When we're fifty, we'll probably be good cooks," Malone was deeply touched; for with those words he had said, "I'll love you till I die.

Worldly ambition inhibits true learning. Ask me. I know. A young man in a hurry is nearly uneducable: He knows what he wants and where he's headed; when it comes to looking back or entertaining heretical thoughts, he has neither the time nor the inclination. All that counts is that he is going somewhere. Only as ambition wanes does education become a possibility.

I have little tolerance for noise and stupidity.

So much of what we see and hear is not the truth of any given situation; sometimes it's necessary to close the eyes and be still, to extend our awareness beyond what we've been conditioned to believe is our field of sensory operation. Only then can we learn the patience to trust that all the information that we need will come to us.

A Stitch in Time Saves Nine.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

I try to take a weekly digital Sabbath, batch my emails so I deal with them a few times a day rather than constantly, and increasingly give myself permission to ignore unsolicited communiques. I try, too, to give others more slack. The respond-now culture is a two-way street. I'm trying to be more mindful of that.

I have a business manager and a book-keeper who deals with our household bills. My husband and I sit down with her for a weekly report on how much money is going out, but I'm not terribly interested, and I don't have the patience for it.

Don't focus on weekly or monthly returns.

I've been running my own record label and doing my weekly radio shows, but people don't see the work. People only see your rise instead of the whole thing.

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

'Eureka' moments are very, very rare in my experience. It normally takes several weeks of experiments to tease out the truth, even when you have a really pretty good idea of what is going on.

There have been times I've finished a big job and thought, 'Great, a couple of weeks off.' But then a couple of weeks turns to three weeks and then after a month you're staring at the phone willing it to ring.