Quotes About Patience

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How much longer, Catilina, will you try our patience

But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a bit more time, that's all.

take it one step at a time; approach the matter dispassionately; avoid a rush to judgement; confide in nobody until there is hard evidence.

Do not trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.

Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.

Relax, lad. Take life as it comes. Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.

Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.

Loial, son of Arent, son of Halen, had secretly always wanted to be hasty.

That man,' Elayne said, 'is never where he needs to be.' 'And yet,' Perrin said, 'he always arrives there eventually.

What can't be changed must be endured.

Respond to demands with silence, respond to challenges with questions. It was amazing how it worked.

Times are not what they were, and we cannot be, either. If you sit and wish for what you want, you may not see it this side of the grave.

Prudence is for those who intend to live long lives

I thought you were dead," Bera breathed. Cadsuane sniffed irritably. "I am growing tired of hearing that. The next imbecile I hear it from is going to yelp for a week.

First things first; take care of what can be done now before worrying too long over what might never be.

The Elders always said I spoke an hour before I thought.

Small hopes can grow surprising fruit.

You got further plucking the chicken in front of you than trying to start on one up a tree. Especially when the tree was in another country and there might not even be another chicken.

My mother," she said firmly, "always told me the best way to learn to deal with a man was to learn to ride a mule. She said they have about equal brains most of the time. Sometimes the mule is smarter.

Patience is a virtue that must be learned, but we must all be ready for the change of an instant.

The best of men are not much better than housebroken. But then, the best of them are worth the trouble of housebreaking.

Peel the apple in your hand, girl, not the one on the tree, Lini's thin voice seemed to whisper in her ear. Tears are for after; they just waste time before.

There was a limit to how many insults a man could swallow in silence.