Quotes About Patience

my family and the Old Doctor's family have had more than our share of ups and downs. And if we folks have a motto, it's this: 'Don't holler—smile and bide your time.' We've survived a passel of things that way, smiling and biding our time, and we've gotten to be experts at surviving

Don't holler—smile and bide your time.' We've survived a passel of things that way, smiling and biding our time, and we've gotten to be experts at surviving. We had to be.

I won't think of it now. I can't stand it if I do. I'll think of it tomorrow at Tara. Tomorrow's another day.

As to why I have made no further advances,' he pursued blandly, as though she had not signified that the conversation was at an end, 'I am waiting for you to grow up a little more. You see, it wouldn't be much fun for me to kiss you now and I'm quite selfish about my pleasures. I never fancied kissing children.

After all, to-morrow is another day.

Really, Scarlett, I can't go all my life, waiting to catch you between husbands.

Tomorrow is another day.

Give me the third best technology. The second best won't be ready in time. The best will never be ready.

Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph, said that whenever he could not see his way clearly, he knelt down and prayed for light and understanding.

Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason.

Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth.

I spent the weekend after our date wishing I could stab him with my fluffy-duck pen and staring at the phone hoping he'd call. Dating is a very tricky business.

I feel pretty sure I know why the dinosaurs went extinct. They were waiting for Sam to pick out a cell phone case.

Happiness is attained by three things: being patient when tested, being thankful when receiving a blessing, and being repentant upon sinning.

To be content does not mean that you don't desire more, it means you're thankful for what you have and patient for what's to come.

Imaan is of two halves; half is patience (Sabr) and half is being thankful (Shukr).

I'll always be thankful for what I have right now. I feel that it's been a blessing. But I know my time will come. It's just the way life is.

In a houseful of toddlers and pets, you can start out having a bad day, but you keep getting detoured.

Nothing has happened too fast, nothing has happened too slow. It has been a mellow rise, and I'm thankful for that. I haven't lost my head, and I haven't lost my desire to keep growing.

If you sell the film rights to your book, it doesn't mean there will be a film. I have sold the rights to five books and had zero films made. Take the money and be thankful.

Praise God even when you don't understand what He is doing.

The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of delaying too long before putting the fruit in the Jell-O so it's too firm and the chunks just sit on top.

Coexistence: what the farmer does with the turkey - until Thanksgiving.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.