Quotes About Patience

Small gestures and time. Rarely failed to win folk over.

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. You have to be realistic about these things.

Patience is the parent of success , Stolicus wrote.

Easy, now, and listen to me. It hurts, yes. Seems like more than you can take, but it isn't. You think you're going to die, but you won't. Listen to me, because I've been there, and I know. Each minute. Each hour. Each day, it gets better.

You have to love the small things, when you've nothing else.

One battle at a time. - Stolicus

Ya cruzaremos ese puente cuando lleguemos a él

You can write down anything you want except when or how it is going to happen.

Was there ever a grandparent, bushed after a day of minding noisy youngsters, who hasn't felt the Lord knew what He was doing when He gave little children to young people?

When I was a boy, I used to pull a big cross saw with my dad. He'd use his right hand, so I'd have to use my left.

the three most important mental skills for success in endurance sports: commitment, confidence, and patience. Taken together, they form what we typically call mental toughness. Mentally tough athletes are hard to beat.

As you learn to be your own coach, be aware of your impatience. Keep it in check. Remind yourself before a hard workout or race that you must contain your emotions early on in order to finish strongly.

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This is an easy thing in the eyes of the LORD.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. —Thomas Edison, inventor and scientist

The elevator to Health, Happiness, and Success is "out of order." You'll have to use the stairs, one step at a time,

It's like in the Bible.You can't always get what you want, but if you really need something, you usually find it." "What part of the Bible is that from?" Ig asked her. "The Gospel of Keith Richards?

I will be waiting by candlelight in our tree house of the mind.

People just have to keep on going, because you never know when something wonderful is going to happen.

God saves—but not now, and not here. His salvation is on layaway. Like all grifters, He asks you to pay now and take it on faith that you will receive later.

Ig knew her, of course. It was the same woman who had served him and Merrin drinks on their last night together. Her face was framed by two wings of lank black hair that curled under her long, pointed chin, so she looked like the female version of the wizard who was always giving Harry Potter such a hard time in the movies. Professor Snail or something. Ig had been waiting to read the books with the children he and Merrin planned to have together.

You been, like, sitting out here for a while," he said. "Do you want me to bring you a blanket or a dead tauntaun or something?

I feel like most folks want a book they feel like they have time to finish. You don't want to start A Game of Thrones when you might catch fire all of a sudden. There's something horribly unfair about dying in the middle of a good story, before you have a chance to see how it all comes out.

The Lotus Way might lead to nirvana, but it was a long trip, and when you had a lot of miles to cover, it was just natural to want some drive-thru along the road.