Quotes About Patience

If you've been working since you were a teenager and working at a reasonably decent level, then you don't expect that you're going to be firmly in your 40s and start moving up in the world, if you like.

Raising teens is a challenge - that's for sure.

Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me.

Without a doubt, the worst part of being a mom is having to floss my kids' teeth every night. It's so tedious.

Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.

What you do is, you have your drawing board and a pencil in hand at the telescope. You look in and you make some markings on the paper and you look in again.

I'm such a long-term investor, I've never really let go and celebrated what I did with the Hubble telescope.

If you start out with a little telescope observing the stars and you keep at it over the years, as I have, it's kind of a dream to one day have an observatory where you can always go and use the telescope conveniently.

I don't get grumpy at a 'Strictly' level, you understand. We're just making a television show - the person I'm dancing with can't dance; they're doing their best, and we're not going to win the World Championships.

I'll play it first and tell you what it is later.

'Everything happens for a reason' is something that we have to tell ourselves all the time, because it's good to have the idea that something good is around the corner.

Time will tell us what we did and didn't do.

When I started out, I really struggled as a comic because no one knew who I was, and sometimes I was telling stories, so it would take a while for people to get on board for things.

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

I have a four year old and I'm telling you we did Nickelodeon last night and he embarrassed me. It was like one of those moments when I couldn't believe my kid is acting like this. I just had to just like walk away from him because he was really pushing my buttons.

He tells you stories, but then, after a while, when you want more, he doesn't give you more. He insists on this old elaboration, the old stories that never changes.

Everybody says love is about finding the person who is right for me and then everything will be fine. But it's not like that. It involves work. An old man tells you this!

You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner. You don't punch a mentally handicapped guy even if he punches you first. And you don't argue when a women tells you she's only making 80 cents to your dollar. It's the path of least resistance. You save your energy for more important battles.

My wife tells me I need to learn to be more patient with my son.

Everyone tells me to play as long as you can. Sometimes, it goes in one ear and out the other.

It took me a while to grasp Kannada and Telugu.

I don't have a problem with my temper.

I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things.

Deep down, I know that I am a child of God who has inherited divine capacities; some of them I strive to develop, others are left languishing. I also have a human side. I lose my temper, lose patience and sometimes judge others and myself.