Quotes About Patience

The art is long, life is short

The best things in life are not only free, but the line is shorter.

Still, life had a way of adding day to day

Of chess it has often been said that life is not long enough for it - but that is the fault of life, not chess.

Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.

Lord, how the day passes! It's like a life - so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly when we do.

I don't want to spend my whole life talking about the promised land without ever getting there. I want to live in it.

My life in the past 20 years has changed. I don't count days anymore, I count the hours, the minutes, the seconds.

I never wanted to live forever," she says. "I just wanted enough time.

Golf is golf. You hit the ball, you go find it. Then you hit it again.

Life is not long at all, never long enough, but days are very long indeed.

What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places?

I can perform the life of the snail and be moving.

You must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes ... without stirring it up from the bottom. That's where the bitter dregs are!

Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

It was not facing what life dealt that made you crazy, but rather trying to set life straight where it was unstraightenable.

I've come to believe that every one who reaches the best that life holds for him reaches it through some Desert of Waiting.

The trick in life is to hang out until the miracles come.

A way of life that keeps saying 'Around the next corner, above the next step,' works against the natural order of things and makes it so difficult to be happy and good.

If God had granted all the silly prayers I've made in my life, where should I be now?

They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. It's more complicated than that.

Life is frustrating enough. Your hobby isn't supposed to put you over the edge.

Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day's life of one who is wise and meditative.

Art's too long and life's too short.