Quotes About Patience

I don't understand people who want to leave a good job. To me, without being terribly judgmental, those are people who haven't gone through their stint of being out of work for long periods of time.

We all want our children to be terrific, but you can't force a child into being what you want it to be.

Don't go into something you actually don't know much about, in the hopes that you're going to get really financially successful and rewarded... even though people think you're, like, terrific.

I'm terrified about the day that I enter the gates of heaven and God says to me, just a minute.

I think I would've been a bit terrified to have gone and done a lead straight away. Obviously great if you do, but it's all about longevity.

It's better to go to one place and stay put and see it than run around a lot of territory and see nothing.

In Milwaukee, I was a young player and I didn't get the time that everybody expected, but that comes with the territory.

Any peace process after so many years of horror and terror will be long and difficult.

'Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere' took me six years to write.

If you play 100-odd Test matches, there's going to be little periods when you don't score runs, and I've always managed to turn it around.

I love playing 'Madame Vastra.' Although I do suffer, spending three-and-a-half hours in make-up every morning to have her lizard skin put on. I was so excited the first day when we did the make-up test, but after six hours, I was like, 'Can we finish now?'

I try not to set myself up as different or as a celebrity or special. I have a husband that can get on my nerves. I have kids that test my patience. I've got a cat I can't keep off the sofa. It's real. On a bad day, I'm reading 'Acts of Faith.'

In white-ball cricket, things are different - over there, you outsmart the batsman, and over here in Test cricket, it's all about patience and consistency.

Bull markets are Test matches and not 50-over games.

In Test matches, you have to play consistent cricket for a period of time.

So, I didn't get moved up because of celebrity status or anything like that. I got in line, and I passed the test. And they realized that I was sick enough, and as soon as the liver became available, I got one.

In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I'm often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly.

Certain cricketers are meant to play Test cricket.

Often as we teach and testify about the law of tithing, we emphasize the immediate, dramatic and readily recognizable temporal blessings that we receive. And surely such blessings do occur. Yet some of the diverse blessings we obtain as we are obedient to this commandment are significant but subtle.

I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.

Whenever I go through any sort of bad patch, I remind myself that part of the game of cricket is God testing you.

The Lord doesn't always take you in a straight line. He tests you sometimes.

Nothing tests a marriage more than insomnia or snoring.

Are you listening or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?