Quotes About Patience

Isn't it surprising how many things, if not said immediately, seem not worth saying ten minutes from now?

While the difficult takes time, the impossible just takes a little longer.

I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.

If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least 10 times.

Golf is a game in which the ball lies poorly and the players well.

Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.

Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.

Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

LEGGE DEI TRENI Se il proprio treno è in ritardo, la coincidenza partirà in perfetto orario.

LEGGE DI KATZ Uomini e nazioni agiranno razionalmente solo dopo aver esaurito ogni altra possibilità.

Finally, obsessing over the future squanders the present.

But the implication remained: good things come to those who wait—and work, and sacrifice, and maybe even suffer.

What exactly is the next marshmallow? Do you know what you want as you start making new sacrifices?

There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.

I am a very zone-specific person. For example, if I put all the pieces of a puzzle together, it's done, so there is nothing to look forward to.

People who work crossword puzzles know that if they stop making progress, they should put the puzzle down for a while.

The problems of puzzles are very near the problems of life.

I'm patient with crossword puzzles and the most impatient golfer.

Chess is a very tough game, and psychologically a tough game. And of course, chess needs a lot of qualities, human qualities. And so you must have a very strong nervous system, and then you must be well prepared; you must be able to work a lot.

My mother is a ball of fire in the world, and I love that about her. But what I have learned from my stepdad is something as important, which is patience and compassion. Because when you are living with someone else, those two qualities go a long way.

When I went through my divorce, I decided that I was going to pray this time for someone. Then, God sent me someone. I prayed for the specific qualities I wanted in a man, and I wasn't going to settle for anything less.

People use the 'love' word too early. When you've got that trust thing locked down, when you've lived together, and you know each other's good and bad qualities inside out, at that moment, you know if you truly love someone.

He was a patient man, a kind man, a man who cared about animals and human beings, all qualities not to be devalued, but James Herriot was not a saint. I tried so hard to play against some of the scripts that implied that he was a saint, but I don't think I was always altogether successful.

Everybody wants to own quality, but quality takes time, and it takes money.