Quotes About Patience

Life's like an hourglass glued to the table.

When I finally learned to let go of having to totally control everything around me and let my life unfold, I was stunned by the results. How could I have ever thought I could outsmart the Universe?

Even stupid people have a role to play in your life. They make you wiser and more patient.

There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.

Chess is beautiful enough to waste your life for.

Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing.

Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside.

Take life one day at a time because every day is a different day with new challenges.

Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.

You're only two years older than me, darling. Where have you been all my life?

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Life is amazing, life is odd. Life is not what you expected it to be. Things happen... Growing up takes longer than you think.

There are going to be peaks and valleys in everything - in your marriage, in your job, in your life. So just enjoy the peaks and ride out the valleys. Just try not to do anything too rash.

I just say the moral out of my life is don't quit at age 65, maybe your boat hasn't come in yet. Mine hadn't.

One hesitates to open a new chapter when the old one is not resolved.

Those who are patient in the trivial things in life and control themselves will one day have the same mastery in great and important things.

No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.

Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun.

People say it takes 10 years to change your life. It's bullshit. It takes a moment, a second. But it may take you 10 years to get to the point of finally saying, "Enough."

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

Life is long. But it goes fast.

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.

We come from people who brought us up to believe that life is a struggle, and if you should feel really happy, be patient: this will pass.