Quotes About Patience

I'll finish this poem in my next life.

A long mission was ahead of them, and no one wanted to get on anyone else's nerves with unnecessary chatter.

I realized that mine is a war with no end in view; I might as well fight it cheerfully or I would spend my life waiting for some distant victory in order to be happy.

You don't believe in miracles. Sure I do. I just haven't seen any lately.

nothing ever happens quickly (except when it does). Nothing is ever, ever easy (except when it is). And, most of all, nothing ever goes perfectly according to plan (except in the movies).

You are very young and time, it is a great healer.

Resenting the obtuseness of others is not good ground for shooting oneself in the foot.

Think twice before you speak to a friend in need

PATIENCE, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.

BORE, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

Just keep your mouth shut and smile. That's always good advice.' Jezal

Anyway, it seems to me a man can do an awful lot of evil in no time at all. Swing of a blade is all it takes. Doing good needs time. And all manner of complicated efforts. Most men don't have the patience for it. 'Specially not these days.

Life's a queue of small irritations with the Last Door at the end.

There's no need to rush, Arch Lector. That's the trouble with good legs, you tend to run around too much. If you have trouble moving, on the other hand, you don't move until you damn well know it's time.

A battle is no place for a self-respecting warrior, but if you must attend one at least have the good taste to be where the fighting isn't.

When you're planning what to do, always think of doing nothing first, see where that gets you.

patience is the chief of virtues," his father used to say, and "you won't cross the mountains in a day." Time might be against them, but there was nothing to be gained by rushing.

Some men you stick to right off. But it's those that take time to stick that stick longest.

But you know what they say - old milk turns sour but old scores just get sweeter.

But then, if you leave it long enough, what doesn't end badly?

In the end … the only thing a man can really do … is pick his moment. Watch for the opening, and recognise it when it comes, and seize it.

El necio ataca -le había dicho-. El sabio sonríe, observa y aprende...y luego ataca.

It all slips by so fast. Slips by and you hardly notice, like leaves on the water. Savour the little moments, son, that's my advice. They're what life is. All the things that happen while you're waiting for something else.

The fool strikes, she had said. The wise man smiles, and watches, and learns. Then strikes.