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Quotes About Patience

Life is so short that it is not wise to take roundabout ways, nor can we spend much time in waiting.... We have not got half-way to dawn yet.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Within ourselves is not very far and yet it is so far that one's whole life is not always long enough to get there.
~ Julien Green
Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking.
~ Louise Erickson
Life is such a very troublesome matter, when all is said and done, that it's as well even to take its blessings quietly.
~ Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Sometimes in life it is most wise to behave like a bridge: Don't judge the person who comes to you; let him come and pass! Behave like a bridge!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
You can always meet stupid people in your life journey; you should treat them like the way candle treats darkness: Illuminate them!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Proceed calmly in life.
~ Pope Francis
Life is short, but its ills make it seem long.
~ Publilius Syrus
But learning-time is always a long, secluded time, and so loving, for a long while ahead and far on into life, is-solitude, intensified and deepened loneness for him who loves.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I steeled myself for the next response. I knew it was going to be one of the Zen life lessons. [...] Instead he kissed me.
~ Richelle Mead
Death was past, life not come: so he waited.
~ Robert Browning
Waiting for my real life to start is no excuse to waste the life I have right now.
~ Susane Colasanti
I see a man's life is a tedious one.
~ William Shakespeare
I'm 26 years old, and I've spent my whole life waiting for something else to start. Now I realize that this is all there is, and I'm going to try to live my life like that.
~ Zach Braff
When you fail to succeed the first time, keep trying. It's called life.
~ William Cranch Bond
Life with another person is always difficult.
~ Yoko Ono
I didn't think about anything past tomorrow because anything past tomorrow was just like cloud busting - it depended soley on the person looking at the clouds and it could rain any minute
~ A.S. King
A film has its own life and takes its own time.
~ Aaron Eckhart
I know that God has a plan for my life.
~ Aaron Schock
Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
~ Abraham Cowley
History is too slow for our life, for our hearts.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I don't know if bliss is possible and I've always thought that my best times will be later in life.
~ Alison Krauss
Along the road of life are many pleasure resorts, but think not that by tarrying in them you will take more days to the journey. The day of your arrival is already recorded.
~ Ambrose Bierce