Quotes About Patience

Cleopatra took her time, but when she appeared she brought everything that was needed.

was kept waiting in an anteroom and was admitted only after a long delay.

I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.

It's a problem for him because he's got - like Edward VII had - nearly all his lifetime to wait until he becomes Monarch. What is he going to do with it? So he wants to do something positive but he always courts those dangers.

I'm one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you're doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.

We have an hour before we have to leave," Cray said. "So I thought I might tell you a little about myself. I thought it might pass the time." "I'm not really all that interested," Alex said.

Looking back now, I would say that this was one of the first valuable lessons I learned, and one that would be useful in my future line of work. Sometimes things go wrong. It is inevitable. But it is a mistake to waste time and energy worrying about events that you cannot influence. Once they have happened, let them go.

Robert Pinkerton used to say that a lie was like a dead coyote. The longer you leave it, the more it smells.

Robert Pinkerton used to say that a lie was like a dead coyote. The longer you leave it, the more it smells. - Frederick Chase

he waited for one load of passengers to get off and another to get on, he would never see the

But if there was one thing that life had taught him, it was the futility of making plans. Life had its own agenda.

I'm not going to get any

futility of making plans. Life had its own agenda.

Will you believe me if I say that no matter how bad things may appear, they will be better tomorrow if you allow tomorrow to do its work?

Books grow old faster when they're not being read

Well, he had never smoked because he thought it was good for him and, if cancer had any fancy ideas about killing him, it would just have to take its place in the queue.

sometimes when ambitions burn out they do so gently.

Well . . . I can come back in twenty years, if you like.

Fast money? Would you rather get boardwalk on your first roll or would you rather win the game of monopoly?

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

Psychology is not a place where you get results overnight.

I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.

I feel like I know so little, and I just hope I get to live so long. I came to puberty late; it's all been late.

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.