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Quotes About Patience

I see my way as birds their trackless way. I shall arrive,what time, what circuit first, I ask not; but unless God send his hail Or blinding fire-balls, sleet or stifling snow, In some time, his good time, I shall arrive: He guides me and the bird. In his good time.
~ Robert Browning
The only fault's with time; All men become good creatures: but so slow!
~ Robert Browning
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand.
~ Robert Browning
It's a long lane that knows no turnings.
~ Robert Browning
Grow old along with me The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made Our times are in his hand who saith, A whole I planned, Youth shows but half trust God See all, nor be afraid
~ Robert Browning
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, 'A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!
~ Robert Browning
I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever.
~ Robert Browning
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
~ Robert Browning
Suspense is worst than disappointment.
~ Robert Burns
Many things happen between the cup and the lip.
~ Robert Burton
What cannot be cured must be endured.
~ Robert Burton
If you can develop the high-level policy without committing to the details that surround it, you can delay and defer decisions about those details for a long time. And the longer you wait to make those decisions, the more information you have with which to make them properly.
~ Robert C. Martin
One of these days, one of these years, the tree will fall, and when it does, if I am still alive, I will fall with it.
~ Robert C. O'Brien
He was deficient in such qualities as patience, even temper, cooperativeness, and the capacity to subordinate oneself, in small ways and large, to the needs of an institution.
~ Robert C. Tucker
You can't really comprehend events like that, I thought. You can only endure them.
~ Robert Charles Wilson
Maybe this was what the media was calling "desperate euphoria"—the we're-all-doomed-but-anything-can-happen feeling that had begun to peak around the time Wun went public. The end of the world, plus Martians: given that, what was impossible? What was even unlikely? And where did that leave the standard arguments in favor of propriety, patience, virtue, and not rocking the boat?
~ Robert Charles Wilson
A man who submits himself wholeheartedly to God might handle them and not be harmed. That was the faith my father had professed. Certainly he trusted God, in his own case, and believed God manifested Himself in the rolled eyes of his congregants and in their babble of incomprehensible tongues. Trust and be saved, was his philosophy. And yet in the end it was the snakes that killed him. I wondered which element of the calculation had ultimately failed him—human faith or divine patience.
~ Robert Charles Wilson
It is the height of stupidity to believe that in the course of your short life, your few decades of consciousness, you can somehow rewire the configurations of your brain through technology and wishful thinking, overcoming the effect of six million years of development. To go against the grain might bring temporary distraction, but time will mercilessly expose your weakness and impatience.
~ Robert Greene
The spider has no need to chase for food, or even to move. It quietly sits in the corner, waiting for its victims to come to it on their own, and ensnare themselves in the web.
~ Robert Greene
Law 35: Master the art of timing "Never seem to be in a hurry – hurrying betrays a lack of control over yourself, and over time. Always seem patient, as if you know that everything will come to you eventually. Become a detective of the right moment; sniff out the spirit of the times, the trends that will carry you to power. Learn to stand back when the time is not yet ripe, and to strike fiercely when it has reached fruition.
~ Robert Greene
Leave martyrdom alone: The pendulum will swing back your way eventually, and you should stay alive to see it.
~ Robert Greene
Our levels of desire, patience, persistence, and confidence end up playing a much larger role in success than sheer reasoning powers. Feeling motivated and energized, we can overcome almost anything. Feeling bored and restless, our minds shut off and we become increasingly passive. In
~ Robert Greene
Understand: the greatest impediment to creativity is your impatience, the almost inevitable desire to hurry up the process, express something, and make a splash. What happens in such a case is that you do not master the basics; you have no real vocabulary at your disposal. What you mistake for being creative and distinctive is more likely an imitation of other people's style, or personal rantings that do not really express anything.
~ Robert Greene
If deception is the most potent weapon in your arsenal, then patience in all things is your crucial shield.
~ Robert Greene