Quotes About Patience

How can you motivate yourself to continue to follow a leader when he appears to be going around in circles?

History will show that patient boys with a sense of humor, who can dance, tend to have more opportunities to participate in the evolution of the species than boys who give up and mope quietly on the sidelines

You stand still, you get caught. You run, you get tired. So.... Learn to lie. Then learn to lie in wait.

Cast Upon The Waters -

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

Al mejor cazador se le escapa la liebre

when they're about to hang you, ask for a glass of water. You never know what might happen before they bring it.

They were caring and tender and, although neither quite knew what caring and tenderness were, they succeeded because they very much wanted to. And they were in no hurry whatsoever. The whole world had ceased to exist for a brief moment, but to them, it seemed like a whole eternity.

But you don't even know how to destroy things wisely,' Zoltan griped, ordering yet another attempt to pull a wheel out of a hole. 'Why can't you remove the stones gradually, from the edges of the road? You're like children! Instead of eating a doughnut systematically, you gouge the jam out with a finger and then throw away the rest because it's not sweet any more.

I'll hear you out." "Without interrupting with spiteful comments?" "That I can't promise." "Oh well"–Stregobor slipped his hands into the sleeves of his robe–"then it'll only take longer.

Geralt ha capito al volo, Cahir crede di aver capito, io chiedo in maniera esplicita un chiarimento, ma prima mi si ordina di tacere, poi mi sento dire che non c'è bisogno che capisca. Grazie. Vent'anni al servizio della poesia sono un periodo abbastanza lungo per sapere che ci sono cose che o si capiscono al volo, anche senza parole, o non si capiranno mai.

Si te van a colgar, pide un vaso de agua. Nunca se sabe qué puede pasar mientras te lo traen.

I've understood that the sun shines differently when something changes, but I'm not the axis of those changes. The sun shines differently, but it will continue to shine, and jumping at it with a hoe isn't going to do anything.

The sun shines differently, but it will continue to shine, and jumping at it with a hoe isn't going to do anything. We've got to accept the facts, elf. That's what we've got to learn.

They were caring and tender and, although neither quite knew what caring and tenderness were, they succeeded because they very much wanted to. And they were in no hurry whatsoever. The whole world had ceased to exist for a brief moment, but to them, it seemed like a whole eternity. And

Il tempo dimostrerà chi aveva ragione. E qui sta la superiorità di chi è longevo: io ho la possibilità di verificarlo.

Dormi, Gatto del Cheshire?» «Ci provo.» «Be', allora dormi, tigre che ardi vivida nelle foreste della notte. Non ti disturberò.» «Sono steso sulla manica della tua redingote. Che succederà quando vorrai alzarti?» Sorrise. «Taglierò la manica.»

Quanto alla fretta, di solito l'impressione dell'inesorabile incalzare del tempo è un segnale d'allarme che impone di rallentare il ritmo e agire lentamente e con l'adeguata riflessione.

Se devono impiccarti, chiedi un bicchiere d'acqua. Non si sa mai cosa accadrà prima che te lo portino...

I'm trying to, but please talk more slowly. Don't forget you're talking to a cabbage.

?e jutro te? jest dzie?, to mo?e brzmie? pocieszaj?co dla g?upków. Dla zwolenników zdrowej ?ywno?ci, ale nie dla ludzi powa?nych. Dla tych, co pal?, pij? i czuwaj? po nocach. Czuwaj? wbrew ogólnemu przekonaniu, ?e nie ma na co czeka?. Bo mo?e i nie ma. Ale nie jest to powód, by nie czuwa?…

Pale and massive, he absorbed time like a sponge. Moved something, wiped something, adjusted something, but the future never came.

As David told a friend one day, "I'm working so hard to live where we want to live that I don't actually get to live there." As

People and nations behave wisely only when they have exhausted all the other alternatives.