Quotes About Patience

Don't try to make me grow up before my time.

Su corazón recibió las enseñas que más necesitaba: la paciencia, que aprendió mediante lecciones tan dulces que era imposible no las asimilara; la caridad por todos, que un alma buena es siempre capaz de perdonar y olvidar cualquier afrenta; la lealtad hacia el deber, que hace más llevadera la tarea más dura, y la fe sincera, que no conoce el miedo y confía sin albergar dudas.

então eu as aconselho a pegar novamente seus pequenos fardo, pois embora às vezes pareçam pesados, nos fazem bem. e ficam mais leves conforme aprendemos a carregá-los.

It is my opinion that this day will never come to an end, said Prince, with a yawn that nearly rent him asunder. Read and improve your mind, my son, answered Archie, peering solemnly over the paper behind which he had been dozing.

O Christie! never think it's time to die till you are called; for the Lord leaves us till we have done our work, and never sends more sin and sorrow than we can bear and be the better for, if we hold fast by Him.

The best have to get through the hobbledehoy age, and that's the very time they need most patience and kindness. People laugh at them, and hustle them about, try to keep them out of sight, and expect them to turn, all at once, from pretty children into fine young men. They don't complain much,--plucky little souls,--but they feel it.

Let us not tire of a good work, hard though it may be and wearisome; think of the many little hearts that in their sorrow look to us for help. What would the green Earth be without its lovely flowers!

Je suis en proie à la colère presque tous les jours de ma vie, Jo ; mais j'ai appris à ne pas la manifester et j'espère encore apprendre à ne plus la ressentir ; quand bien même cela devrait me prendre quarante autres années de ma vie.

Was it all self-pity, loneliness, or low spirits? Or was it the waking up of a sentiment which had bided its time as patiently as its inspirer? Who shall say?

Hearing, like a sad refrain- 'Be worthy, love, and love will come,' In the falling summer rain.

Trying to work too quickly, trying to work in too polished a way too quickly, expecting clarity too soon, can set us up for failure.

As we begin a work, remembering we needn't know how it'll turn out or whether it'll be successful might be comforting. And we can cultivate our ability to work despite confusion

Let's imagine how we might grow as writers if we work in a slow writing way rather than rushing through our work trying to accumulate a pile of pages. Just imagine what we might gain from being writers who move slowly through our work and slowly through our lives.

Her mind was present because she was always gone. Her hands were filled because they grasped the meaning of empty. Life was simple. Her husband returned and she served him with indifferent patience this time. When he asked what had happened to her heat for him, she gestured to the west. The sun was setting. The sky was a body of fire.

Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones. Our pulse is set to theirs, and as always on a weekend afternoon we were waiting for my mother to start us ticking away on the evening.

The present was enough, though my work in the cemetery told me every day what happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough: it becomes your entire history.

I want to see the story. More than anything, I am frustrated by the fact that I'll never know how things turn out.

What I am doing now is for the future, though it may seem small, or trivial, or boring, to you.

I hope you will not be tempted into litigation. Life is too short for that."25

Like Rockefeller, he advocated self-discipline and deferred gratification.

Pierpont wanted to follow him, but he held back, awaiting word of Junius's plans.

I've talked too long, I'm afraid. There are others here who wished to talk.

He had to bide his time, though, because he first had to dispose of two legal challenges that dogged his footsteps throughout 1879.

When playing checkers or chess, he showed exceptional caution, studying each move at length, working out every possible countermove in his head. "I'll move just as soon as I get it figured out," he told opponents who tried to rush him. "You don't think I'm playing to get beaten, do you?"12 To ensure that he won, he submitted to games only where he could dictate the rules.