Quotes About Patience

...for chess, that superb, cold, infinitely satisfying anodyne to life, I feel the ardour of a lover, the humility of a disciple.

You can keep as quiet as you like, but one of these days somebody is going to find you.

Life's to short for chess.

God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

In trying to teach children a great deal in a short time, they are treated not as though the race they were to run was for life, but simply a three-mile heat.

Life wears down the edges of the mind.

I try not to be too hard on myself. My husband reminds me that life is a marathon, not a sprint.

No whining, no complaining about anyone. Everybody in your life has come to teach you lessons.

Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.

I wish life was not so short. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.

If only life were that simple; if one could jump to the good parts and flick through the bad.

In real life, I tend to yell at people a lot. Not because I'm bossy or mean, but because I'm frustrated.

Life is not too short... we just wait too long to begin it.

Anger manages everything badly.

Extreme patience and persistence are required, Yet everybody succeeds at this before being handed The surprise box lunch of the rest of his life.

Inch by inch, life's a cinch. Yard by yard, life's hard.

Perhaps I've been rushing my whole entire life, jumping into things headfirst without thinking them through. Running through the days without noticing the minutes.

Go God's way! His is the most reliable route to follow when life gets complicated. It will have its tough moments, but you will never regret it.

I've been trying to garden all my life - it just happens that I haven't had a big garden...until the past few years.

Waiting is one of life's hardships.

As I let go of the need to arrange my life, the universe brings abundant good to me.

Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life

He is invariably in a hurry being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life.