Quotes About Patience

I don't think there is any set formula to have a good relationship.

Having no expectations is a really good thing.

In democracy - and the good thing about democracy, big change does not happen quickly, and you need a buy-in and a convincing, a selling, an arm-twisting to get big change. And that takes time.

As long as you work hard, good things will come. I firmly believe that.

Good things take time.

Good things, you can't rush into them.

When I first went to rugby, I wanted it all; I just wanted it all, and you know, I thought it was just going to happen just like that, but I've come to learn that good things take time.

If you keep working at something and stay with it, eventually good things will happen to you.

I'm sure if I continue to do my work maybe good things will come in the future but for me the most important thing is always the next day, the next training and the next match.

There are always good times and bad times.

Stick out the bad times because there's always good times coming up. When you come out on the other side, it's amazing.

I am waiting for some good work to come my way - whether it's TV or films... As long as it catches my interest, I will take it.

The long silences need to be loved, perhaps more than the words which arrive to describe them in time.

I guessed that when you are nearly a man, you have to learn to put up with a lot of aggravation from little old bitty kids.

Lei sa meglio di me che ho lasciato andar via Camille dieci volte pensando sempre che il treno sarebbe ripassato l'undicesima, il giorno in cui fossi stato pronto. Ed è proprio allora che non passa più. - Non si sa mai con gli scambi. - Ai treni, come agli uomini, non piace girare in tondo. Alla lunga si innervosiscono.

I remember that feeling, that comfort, that sense of everything in its place, the rightness of it all, when the winter is loved and the summer is all the sun there is. When you want that specific moment, that time, that place, that situation, forever. You can't force it or wish it, and praying doesn't help. You wait, you keep going, you hope maybe it will come around again. That flawless equilibrium.

Sometimes the things that do not quite happen in your life count for more than the things that do.

I have spent uncounted hours of my life in such haggard waiting, crazy in my conviction that they would never come back at all because something unspeakable had happened to them the way I had learned as a child that unspeakable things happen. And it has taken me years to understand that what I feared most of all was perhaps less the disaster that might have befallen them than the disaster of being locked up in the dark of my own fear. The Cowardly Lion.

Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets. All these also did not receive what was promised but greeted it from afar, and then there are all those who did not much believe in the promise to begin with, and it is not always possible to tell the two apart.

It should not matter, but it does. I want to know how many hours of the night are gone and how many remain and that there is no good reason for my wanting to know does not stop the wanting.

Doing nothing is more expedient than doing something.

you sometimes note an impatience on the part of a specialist that the public does not show sufficient interest in his assemblage of information as such. He is likely to conclude that the average person is somewhat stupid. The opposite is true. It is a sign of native intelligence on the part of any person not to clutter his mind with indigestibles.

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.