Quotes About Patience

But patience had to be learned alone.

One could teach knowledge. One could teach skills. One could even, she knew, teach something of the Force. But patience had to be learned alone.

There's a French saying, 'Où le Dieu a vous semé, il faut savoir fleurir.' Let's see, 'Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower'...

All my life, I kept waiting for things to get better. For the bright promise of mañana. But a funny thing happened while I was waiting for the world to change, Chabele: It didn't. Because I didn't change it.

The person who wants to think will have to practice patience and master fear.

Over the past hundred and fifty years , it has become increasingly difficult to extricate reading from academic expectations; but I believe such extrication is necessary. Education is and should be primarily about intellectual navigation, about --I scruple not to say it -- skimming well, and reading carefully for information in order to upload content. Slow and patient reading, by contrast, properly belongs to our leisure hours.

A recovery old-timer had told me: "Time takes time. Don't be in any rush to get this thing. Let it filter in slow. What's the hurry?

Thus, in this world of brief scenes from the future, few risks are taken. Those who have seen the future do not need to take risks, and those who have not yet seen the future wait for their visions without taking risks.

man should be his own ideal and champion, however long it takes him to arrive there.

He went out of the door, and she watched him through the little window, walking slowly to the door of the church. Then she sat down at his table, and put her head on it, and was silent, with the patient suffering of black women, with the suffering of oxen, with the suffering of any that are mute.

Then he gave himself over to deep and earnest prayer, and after each petition he raised his eyes and looked to the east. And the east lightened and lightened, till he knew that the time was not far off. And when he expected it, he rose to his feet and took off his hat and laid it down on the earth, and clasped his hands before him. And while he stood there the sun rose in the east.

Drive very slowly. Especially round corners. And along straight roads." "Can you please trust me?" "I trust you with my life," Skulduggery said. "Just not necessarily my car.

Eating was something to do to pass the time.

I said to myself – wait for me in hell, I'll come to you.

By projecting ourselves always into the hereafter we miss out on the present, on knowing ourselves and the richness of the current moment. By trying to control what we can't, we all but guarantee frustration and disappointment.

And sometimes in life, that's all you ever need. A crisp but subtle line.

In sum, one of the primary things I learned was how to kill time. I learned also to wish away my life. I learned to give myself away.

You got to stay solid in these present time's, even today we all feel some sort of designed problems; however wait until your coldest day's turn into sunshine and don't give up; it would be a pity to spend life without finer days. -MillYentei

Time takes away the grief of men.

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument." Good sense does not always lie with the loudest shouters, nor can we say that a large, unruly crowd is always the best arbiter of what is right.

Impatience is the enemy of wisdom; it propels us to jump conclusions, judge and condemn, rather than understand

The world may be ever-changing and full of uncertainties, but walking away is not the answer. World-rejection, according to the epic, is dangerous and destructive.

Neither death nor wisdom has a full stop. There are only commas-no destinations, only waiting rooms.