Quotes About Patience

Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.

It's one of those things a person has to do; sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.

Dost thou think," said Mejnour, "that I would give to the mere pupil, whose qualities are not yet tried, powers that might change the face of the social world? The last secrets are intrusted only to him of whose virtue the Master is convinced. Patience! It is labour itself that is the great purifier of the mind; and by degrees the secrets will grow upon thyself as thy mind becomes riper to receive them.

Never fire anyone until it is convenient for you.

En ik sta te denken dat je toch gehoopt zou hebben dat iemand na al die tijd een douche zou hebben uitgevonden waarbij het gemakkelijk is om het water op de juiste temperatuur te krijgen. Maar dat lijkt de zoveelste te zijn dat de mensheid maar niet voor elkaar krijgt.

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three — all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds-- all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

At Paul Masson, we will sell no wine before its time.

Foolishness always results when the tongue outraces the brain.

No matter how slow you go, you are still lapping everybody on the couch.

Hang by your thumbs, everybody! Write if you get work!

Sister Anne, do you see anyone coming?

I used to stare up at the sky trying to see where the snowflakes were born. I could do it for hours. Well, minutes. But it was always the waiting that was the most fun.

The early bird might get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

Drive now. Text later.

En boca cerrada no entran moscas [The closed mouth swallows no flies].

Before someone gets their driver's license they should have to beat Rainbow Road on Mario Kart without falling off.

No por mucho madrugar amanece más temprano [Dawn comes no sooner for the early riser].

If you pick 'em up, O Lord, I'll put 'em down.

Love, she said, should be said more slowly, and ran from the house. Words could not catch her as such. Honesty is so slow, that is the trouble.

Feed him [Micajah] with bread of affliction, and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.

I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now.

Conversation is the slowest form of human communication.