Quotes About Patience

Whatever you want too much you can't have, so when you really want something, try to want it a little less.

It's wise to learn how to cook,' Kessligh fumed, 'but a meal prepared over three weeks is inedible! There is wisdom in action! So stop talking, and act!

Given some recent events, he'd come to doubt whether being a great warrior was all some made it out to be. But now he'd seen great warriors save the entire corbi race. And Liala had led them, not with bravado and shouting, but with calculation, patience and reason. Being a warrior, then, was more than just one thing. The best warriors, like Liala, Styx, Captain Debogande and Major Thakur, were far more than just brave and dangerous.

I am still learning every day not to watch other people's careers and compare.

May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions.

I don't fall in love very easily. It takes a long time, and then, when I have fallen in love, I'm still not sure. I'm suspicious of myself. What if tomorrow I don't feel the same? I have to wait, to be sure. And I wait and wait.

Maybe next year is the year. Maybe last year.

I'll say this one more time. I will be gentle. I will be slow. But you don't have the reins.

There are twenty-five thousand, six hundred and twelve things you don't know about me. I'll tell you one each day." "That means it will take you seventy-plus years to know everything about me. When I turn one hundred, that will be the last one. Though I expect by then you'll know the very first and very last thing you need to know about me, the only one that matters." ~ Jon Forte

See? Small steps. Just take it one thing at a time and you'll be fine. Angel, I'm not going to hurt you. You know that, right? Can you nod for me? Breathe a little?" Tender humor mixed with the concern in his face could undo her. And give her reassurance. She was rather amazed at the combination.

But he saw her and, God, it was exactly like last night. Everything he'd learn about this particular woman would fascinate him; he was sure of it. He'd want to learn more and more. This was real. [...] He'd take anything, even thirty minutes in a coffee shop, but she was running late. So he'd have to treat the next ten minutes as the most important of his life - without scaring the shit out of her.

Being violent is easy, too easy." He brushed it off. "Holding back, being gentle, restraining your strength when it's not needed, that takes—" "Character," she said. "Loads of it.

De store seire er aldri vunnet i det første slag.

Tålamod är en av de viktigaste dygderna.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?

Great souls suffer in silence.

While we are aiming at clear ideas, the food gets cold and tasteless.

In fact, the world is complex. To reflect that honestly, you usually need to focus on one thing for a significant amount of time, and you need space to speak at length. Very few things worth saying can be explained in 280 characters.

what we are sacrificing is depth in all sorts of dimensions…. Depth takes time. And depth takes reflection.

How do you slow down in a world that is speeding up?

Depth takes time. And depth takes reflection. If you have to keep up with everything and send emails all the time, there's no time to reach depth.

you feel the urge to check your phone, wait ten minutes. He says you should "time-box"—which means you should draw up a detailed schedule of what you are going to do each day,