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Quotes About Patience

A basic truth of management - if not of life - is that nearly everything looks like a failure in the middle.
~ Rosabeth Moss Kanter
The life of faith is not the perfect life; it is the life which clings on to what God has said he will do.
~ Timothy Keller
Have no judgments about your life, no expectations, and give up the need to know what happens tomorrow.
~ Caroline Myss
I hate rushing the creative process, but there could definitely be a lot worse lots in life.
~ Carson Ellis
All year you look forward to the summer, and when it finally comes, what happens? Not much.
~ Dyan Sheldon
The ball I threw while playing in the park has not yet reached the ground.
~ Dylan Thomas
Even in our own lives, there are times when we want something so much that we cannot let go of the thought of it. Whether that is an object, a person or a state of mind, whatever it is, we long for it, but it remains out of reach. Then, at the very point where we totally give up and let go of it, we get what we have been wishing for.
~ Dzogchen Ponlop
Life is always a rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.
~ E. B. White
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
~ E. B. White
The greatest power is often simple patience.
~ E. Joseph Cossman
It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
~ E. L. Doctorow
You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can see the whole trip that way.
~ E. L. Doctorow
I lie there and wait, and remind myself over and over that it doesn't last forever. That there will be another day and after that, yet another day. One of those days, I'll get up and eat breakfast and feel okay.
~ E. Lockhart
Sometimes it's a good idea to think about what you want from a situation, and try to get it, rather than just blurt out the first thing that comes into your head.
~ E. Lockhart
What do you do then? When it's like that/" "Nothing. I lie there and wait, and remind myself over and over that it doesn't last forever. that there will be another day and after that, yet another day. One of those days, I'll get up and eat breakfast and feel okay." "Another day." "Yes.
~ E. Lockhart
I hate it when things are unfinished.
~ E. Lockhart
Suffer. You could say it means endure, but that's not exactly right.
~ E. Lockhart
Nothing, I just lie there and wait, and remind myself over and over that it doesn't last forever, that there will be another day and after that, yet another day
~ E. Lockhart
Suffer. You could say it means to endure, but that's not exactly right
~ E. Lockhart
To be strong, to keep calm and to trust - they were still the one hope.
~ E. M Forster
Another reason Westerners are tempted to compromise is because we tend to view the world dualistically. Things are true or false, right or wrong, good or bad. We have little patience for ambiguity or for the unsettling reality that values change over time.
~ E. Randolph Richards
Love doesn't work that way. You don't meet one day and kiss and see sparkles the next. Real love takes time. They need to get to know each other, and when they do, then they might fall in love. They know next to nothing about each other now.
~ E.D. Baker
Great self-respect is as often manifested in forbearance as in resentment.
~ E.D.E.N. Southworth
love does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud, it does not behave improperly, it does not seek its own advantage, it is not easily provoked, it bears no grudge, delights not in evil but rejoices only in the truth. It shelters all, trusts all, always hopes, always endures. Love is everlasting.
~ E.H. Gombrich