Quotes About Patience

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.

Back in the 1500s, the culture that we had built in the West embraced multigenerational projects quite easily. Notre Dame. Massive cathedrals were not built over the course of a few years, they were built over a few generations. People who started building them knew they wouldn't be finished until their grandson was born.

Be happy now. It's a great Western disease that we'll be happy in the future - when we get higher status or that BMW or that promotion or this project finished. Instead, be happy now.

I thought Clint Eastwood was cool in all the western movies, but I'm not gonna drive somewhere he's at and stand in line to see him. I told Missy, my wife, 'The only person I'd stand in line for is God Almighty. You made the universe? All right, I'll get in line!'

I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.

Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.

The first album didn't become successful until the second was practically written.

Write something and leave it aside so you've practically forgotten it as much as possible, a month or so, then come back and read it as if you're reading it for the first time.

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.

I think it's a fallacy that the harder you practice the better you get.

I think love is something that you have to work on, and it develops over experience and time. Love is a practice.

You could argue that if the average golfer plays a golf course with 430-yard par 4s and they always miss the green, that's good practice. It's definitely great practice to play a course that's too long for you.

I have been training since 8th grade, but it has to do with listening, more than practice.

I save the race for the race and I don't let it all out in practice.

Feel shots. Flops. Bump-and-runs. Those types of things are usually what go first for me when I haven't practiced much.

I'm sounding like Oprah, but if you're not practicing contentment where you are now, you're not getting contentment when you get what you want.

We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it.

Practicing love is a difficult thing to do. It's much easier to get angry.

Practicing hard doesn't guarantee you anything.

If you face the goalkeeper, you have to wait for him to go and then put the ball in the other side. It's easy to say it but not so easy to do it when you are in the 88th minute of a game. So you must practise.

There are a lot of things you can practise to unsettle teams that defend deep.

I have a sort of long-term plan to direct. I'm pragmatic about it. I realize I don't need to rush it or force it.

However pragmatic you are, it is very demanding being a new parent.