Quotes About Patience

When you wipe out, all you can do is let the wave take you and stay calm until you can come up for air.

I have been making wire jewelry - and think I'll really do something with it, eventually.

I've enjoyed working on the TV series that I've worked on, in particular something like 'The Wire,' where there was so much time to tell the story and develop a character. I learned from that that it's best not to lay all your cards on the table straight away.

'The Wire' is my all-time favourite show. It takes its time, and it doesn't spoon-feed the viewer.

By definition, saving - for anything - requires us to not get things now so that we can get bigger ones later. That's hard. Our brains are hard wired to prefer the here and now.

Driver Shepherd and I had been detailed to drive Lt. Budden in the Wireless Truck. We had been standing by vehicles for an hour, and nothing had happened, but it happened frequently.

Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.

Never find fault with the absent.

Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

The less you talk, the more you're listened to.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.

Wise investors won't try to outsmart the market.

The fool inherits, but the wise must get.

If you're impatient while waiting for the bus, tell yourself you're doing 'Bus waiting meditation.' If you're standing in a slow line at the drugstore, you're doing 'Waiting in line meditation.' Just saying these words makes me feel very spiritual and high-minded and wise.

Fishing is a hard job. Fishing at night. Rain. Day, night. You have to be wise and smart. And quick.

I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress.

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

It can't possibly last for years and browsing has its limits. Only a certain amount is healthy or wise.

It's a wise thing to hold back.