Quotes About Patience

Training the mind to be patient and calm under all circumstances, then, often begins with learning to wear our likes and dislikes loosely, casually, like a favorite old sweater.

To find Mr. Darcy, she would have to go back in time… – Isobella Douglas

I soon realized that one of the most important things to find while working in theater was someone to giggle with. To find someone to giggle with I place just below finding someone to flirt with and just above the ability to knit. Those are the only three things to do while waiting to go on. Oh, and crosswords of course, if you can bear them. Anything else breaks the spell.

To find someone to giggle with I place just below finding someone to flirt with and just above the ability to knit. Those are the only three things to do while waiting to go on.

While life is being postponed, it rushes past.

Nothing delays healing as much as a constant change of remedies.

Beware of talking so much that your child becomes quiet because he cannot think of things to say as fast as you can. You tend to leap (or speak) first and look a little later. Your child is thinking over what you have said and what to say back, while you may have already changed the subject. Leave silences.

I got a computer. I wrote an apology note to my VCR for ever thinking it was difficult. You find someone in this country who can print out an envelope. Maybe the fifth envelope, but you have to kill four to get to the fifth one.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of a field in hope that the cow will back up to them

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hopes that the cow will back up to them.

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

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

Teachers are often, and understandably, impatient for their students to develop clear and adequate ideas. But putting ideas in relation to each other isn't a simple job. It's confusing and this confusion does take time. All of us need time for our confusion if we are to build the breadth and depth that give significance to our knowledge.

waited for her under the maple trees

But you only have to live one minute at a time, Ruth, and any one can endure anything for one minute at a time!

Because sometimes it doesn't help to chase after the thing you want. No. Sometimes you have to wait, however long it takes, until what you want most comes to you.

We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

There is another ingredient of the maturing process that is almost as painful as accepting your own limitations and the knowledge of what you are unable to give. That is learning to accept what other people are unable to give you. You must learn not to demand the impossible or to be upset when you do not get it.

Girl, where were you last night? I waited up until Arsenio was over.

And to keep under control the anxieties of change I had, finally, taught myself to wait patiently until every emotion imploded and could come out in a tone of calm, my voice held back in my throat so that I would not make a spectacle of myself.