Quotes About Patience

If she is right we will not gain anything by answering, and if she is wrong time will vindicate us.

Let him take his time, with gentle management. Make him feel that he is giving it, not that it is being taken from him with violence.

Though he was exacting and did not pay high salaries, he never yelled at his employees and dealt with them in a patient, considerate manner, occasionally inviting them to sit by the fire for a chat.

Since I don't know where I'm going, I guess I'm in no real hurry to get there.

I always sit through the credits. I am always the last one out of any theater. I even make a point of being last. I stay in my seat until everyone else has shuffled past. Then I turn my back, too, on the comforting dark.

I listened to time clicking like hooves on pavement. But time isn't something you can rein in. It moves on without pause, taking us with it no matter how much we wish it otherwise.

can't watch her die," he told her. "I just can't." He waited on the porch till it was over.

Scott's "Anaconda Plan" failed to consider what the Southern troops would be doing while the Northern troops took several months to travel to and sail down the Mississippi. Lincoln knew that the public would never have the patience for Scott's plan. In listening to his daily visitors, he came to understand that his Northern audience needed to see some results if he and the Union would retain their support.

Reading a book is like life: you live it one page at a time.

I spoke to ears that refused to hear.

I think 'slow writing' is the answer when the feeling of burn out threatens, something akin to the 'slow food' movement. Anxiety and panic are counterproductive to the creative process.

One just had to be content with what had happened so far.

You mustn't think so far ahead. Just think about tomorrow, and then take one thing at a time.

She supposed she missed him, but it was not easy to go on missing a person when life had been lived without him for so long, with the only contact his monthly letters, which were three weeks old when they arrived, and not very inspiring even then.

my time pulling up the beastly things.

If she had learned nothing else, she had learned that every age brings its own rewards.

A year. They had known each other a year. They [Janey and David] had this closeness, this rapport. But the final certainty was missing, and it was this void that, because she loved him so much, she was learning to live with. ['Anniversary']

Wasting time changes the nature of time.

I am not in search of friends and confidences. I'm concentrating on being. I live each hour, one by one. My mind is quiet and still. I am no longer waiting for time to pass

readiness for the midday meal. The

Uncle Claudie Windham's life has weathered to the color of wisdom.

When God is leading us to challenge another, let not fear hold us back. Let us not argue or press our point. Let us just say what God has told us to and leave it there. It is God's work, not ours, to cause the other to see it. It takes time to be willing to bend the proud stiff-necked I. When

I gave up on ever trying to get 'my way.' I barely knew it existed.

It's really easy to be patient and sympathetic with someone when it's theoretical, or only for a little while. It's a lot harder to deal with someone's craziness when it's constant. . . .