Quotes About Patience

I have to take my time, use my punches, and use the ring.

I'm usually pretty punctual. I'm not one to like to be late. When I was younger, I was the guy who'd leave the house early if I had to get somewhere and drive around for a while until it got to be time to show up.

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

Investing is pure.

Purgatory is hell, with hope.

When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.

Sometimes you buy a book, powerfully drawn to it, but then it just sits on the shelf. Maybe you flick through it, the ghost of your original purpose at your elbow, but it's not so much rereading as re-dusting. Then one day you pick it up, take notice of the contents; your inner life realigns.

Things aren't gifted to you. Things don't just come from an idea, from nothing. You have to work for them. You have to pursue them. You have to take time. You have to sacrifice.

I have learnt that gardens are like happiness: you cannot pursue them as an absolute thing or moment.

I've wanted to act since I was little, but my parents told me I couldn't pursue it until after college. The understanding was that I was lucky enough to be able to go to college and that it's important to being successful in life.

You can't always understand if someone's into you or not, so you should never really pursue something too far without gauging that first.

With any character you portray, you can never play the end in the beginning. You have to pursue and attack your intention as if they're going to be successful.

It's not like a corporate job where the more you accumulate on your resume and the more hours you put in, the higher up you get; it's simply not the case. That being said, if I had known that and known what kind of career I'd get into, I still would have pursued it.

I allowed life to give me presents. And everything just sort of happened the way it was supposed to happen. I did not pursue anything. It more or less pursued me.

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

There are periods that we forget that in the pursuit of fruit, that if we just abide in Him, then fruitfulness is a guarantee.

There is no sure-fire way to get rich quickly. In fact, the pursuit of that usually leads to ruin.

You don't want to have any negativity in your life. Continue to push. Continue to be patient. And when your time comes, then you've got to do everything you can, that's all.

You can't push and force people to do what they don't want to do.

There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.

I've spent most of my life doing some sort of exercise, but I've learned to never push myself into doing it. I know that when I am up for it I will, and when I'm not in the mood to, I don't make myself feel badly over it.

It's different every time you write. Sometimes it might be harder than it was the day before. I don't like forcing it, but sometimes, if you force it a little bit, it helps you to push forward, and you get inspired in a way. I've written songs in an hour. And there are songs that have taken me six months.

The Good Humor man can only be pushed so far.

When things don't happen in my life, I believe that I've been pushed into another path for a reason, and there's a bigger picture.