Quotes About Patience

I love fast breaks, and I love playing full-court basketball, but offensively in the half court, I kind of take my time, let guys cut, and let the defense move. Then, if I have a move, I'll go. If not, I'll just hand it off to a teammate.

A big thing for me is trying to work on slowing down and not rushing plays, so I can be able to make plays for my teammates.

It killed me being on the bench and watching my teammates play. I wanted to be out there helping them win. But that gave me more motivation.

Sometimes it is difficult to play against teams who just drop back and try to defend.

We'd have to check into this another time— say, like, the next time we decided to break into a maximum-security prison. Mead, Richelle (2010-05-18). Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel (p. 138). Penguin Young Readers Group. Kindle Edition.

Here goes nothing might have been an accurate statement, because nothing actually happened.

One step at a time," murmured Abe. "No point in letting the larger picture overwhelm us. We'll just start at the beginning.

Besides, there are lots of ways to keep busy in the meantime." That brought her smile back, and my heart lightened. "I'm guessing whatever 'ways' you have in mind aren't Jill-appropriate either." "Put your books away, and I'll show you.

Sometimes it's worth lingering on the journey for a while before getting to the destination.

When he grew tired again and started crying, I had no instructions to follow. Sydney gave a helpless shrug when I looked at her. So I just walked him around the living room, crooning classic rock songs until he dozed off and could be set down.

Brooke's deputy, General Sir John Kennedy, observed of Churchill: "He is difficult enough when things are going badly, more difficult when nothing is happening, and quite unmanageable when all is going well.

the less difficult you are, the fewer the number of difficult people you'll have to deal with.

When one door closes another opens but all too often there is a long hallway in between.

Life will always throw you curves, just keep fouling them off... the right pitch will come, but when it does, be prepared to run the bases.

I have a treasured set of matched grain crosscut horns made for me by master American carver Jim Cooke, cut yin-yang from the same block of briar he waited five years to find.

Discouragement often comes from focusing on the wrong things. It also derives from a lack of patience, which is a virtue we are losing in our society.

Don't leave five minutes before the miracle?

Love passionately bears with others for as long as patience is needed; love doesn't demand others to be like itself, but is so focused on the needs of others that it bends over backwards to become what others need it to be; love is not ambitious, self-centered, or so consumed with itself that it never thinks of the needs or desires that others possess.…

If you know someone who is discouraged because his fight isn't won yet, speak to that person truthfully and forthrightly, the way a commanding officer would speak to his troops.

Hermes gazed up at the stars. 'My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it. It doesn't matter if they hate you, or embarrass you, or simply don't appreciate your genius for inventing the Internet--

Afterward, I had the last laugh. I made an air bubble at the bottom of the lake. Our friends kept waiting for us to come up, but hey-when you are the son of Poseidon, you don't have to hurry. And it was pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time.

Very well! It shall be as you say. But my son, pray this works. I am praying. I'm talking to you, right? Oh...yes. Good point. Amphitrite - incoming!

The more you pray, the less you'll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You'll feel more patient and less pressured.

You never know God is all you need until God is all you have.