Quotes About Patience

Thou mayst burst thyself with rage, but they will go on doing the same things none the less.

God give me patience to reconcile with what I am not able to change. Give me strength to change what I can. And give me wisdom to distinguish one from another.

You must build up your life action by action, and be content if each one achieves its goal as far as possible.

I'm going to be meeting with people today who talk too much – people who are selfish, egotistical, ungrateful. But I won't be surprised or disturbed, for I can't imagine a world without such people.

Budi poput krševite obale o koju se neprestance lome valovi. Ona stoji postojano, a oko nje uzavrele vode polako se smiruju.

Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.

Dogs wait for us faithfully.

Quo usque tandem abutere, Catalina, patientia nostra?

Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? Quam diu etiam furor iste tuus nos eludet? Quem ad finem sese effrenata iactabit audacia? (When, O Catiline, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end of that unbridled audacity of yours, swaggering about as it does now?)

Sometimes I arrive too early. I rush, and some people cling longer to life than expected.

This did not prevent him from going to print shop every morning and working as conscientiously as ever, following the advice of Yochanan ben Zakkai: 'If you are planting an olive tree when you learn that the Messiah has come, finish planting the olive tree and then go to greet the messiah.

Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.

All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

If I am good enough and quiet enough, perhaps after all they will let me go; but it's not easy being quiet and good, it's like hanging on to the edge of a bridge when you've already fallen over; you don't seem to be moving, just dangling there, and yet it is taking all your strength.

If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word.

I stand on the corner, pretending I am a tree.

Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along.

Like the trains, she's never on time and always departing.

Sex is like a drink, it's bad to start brooding about it too early in the day.

Experiences were what you got when you couldn't get what you wanted.

I was buying time. One is always buying something.

Is anything wrong, dear? the old joke went. No, why? You moved. Just don't move.

Lose your temper and you lose the fight.