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Quotes About Patience

One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.
~ Oscar Wilde
In the game of life, nothing is less important than the score at halftime.
~ Andy Andrews
He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Living a life of following Christ means constant interruptions.
~ Bob Goff
You sit in your tepee and dream and then you go to wherever the dream may take you. It might come true. You wait for real life to catch up.
~ Burt Lancaster
Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it.
~ Camryn Manheim
Be patient. Life can seem pretty gray while those beautiful wings of yours are being formed. All in due time, dear one. All in due time.
~ Cheryl Richardson
Faith is building on what you know is here so that you can reach what you know is there.
~ Cullen Hightower
I am among those who firmly believe that a round of golf should not take more than three and a half hours, four at most. Anything longer than that is not a round of golf, it's life in Albania.
~ Dan Jenkins
Much of life for many people, even in the heart of the First World, still consists of waiting in a bus shelter with your shopping for a bus that never comes.
~ Doreen Massey
Activity is not achievement. It is not enough to rush about beginning a lot of things and keeping busy. A well-spent life is one that rounds out what it has begun.
~ Eknath Easwaran
Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
~ Epictetus
To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
People who postpone happiness are like children who try chasing rainbows in an effort to find the pot of gold at the rainbows end...Your life will never be fulfilled until you are happy here and now.
~ Ken Keyes Jr.
I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.
~ Khaled Hosseini
I live in a room and I go to work and I play a game called getting through the day while you wait for the night.
~ Lillian Hellman
There is time in life for everything.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The one thing I would tell everyone - myself included - would be to just chill out. Life, by design, provides us with plenty of drama without us having to augment it and invent more. Just chill.
~ Mark Deklin
If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.
~ Thomas Jefferson
If you don't try and force it, a song will find the proper moment to come to life.
~ Valerie Simpson
All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.
~ Wendell Berry
Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through life. Mrs Vesey sat through life.
~ Wilkie Collins
Sometimes you have to stop trying to force it, walk away and let your subconscious show you the way. Fill up on life for a while.
~ J. K. Rowling
Deciding to commit yourself to long term results rather than short term fixes is as important as any decision you'll make in your lifetime.
~ Anthony Robbins