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Quotes About Patience

We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.
~ Thomas Merton
Know that everything will happen at just the right time, at just the right place, with just the right people.
~ Wayne Dyer
It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn.
~ Alan Watts
All men have their appointed time; that's something no horse can change.
~ Liu Bei
For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
You do it a day at a time. You write as well as you can, you put it in the mail, you leave it under submission, you never leave it at home.
~ James Lee Burke
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come.
~ Janet Erskine Stuart
You can save a lot of time waiting on God.
~ Adrian Rogers
Fishing is a condition of mind wherein you cannot possibly have a bad time.
~ Zane Grey
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
~ Jean Genet
Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.
~ David Lloyd George
I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it.
~ Neil Gaiman
I never succeed in painting scenes, however beautiful, immediately upon returning from them. I must wait for a time to draw a veil over the common details.
~ Thomas Cole
I am not thinking too far ahead, just want to take it one thing at a time.
~ Sachin Tendulkar
Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick.
~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry.
~ Ade Edmondson
What we all need to do is find the wellspring that keeps us going, that gives us the strength and patience to keep up this struggle for a long time.
~ Winona LaDuke
Wisdom sails with wind and time.
~ John Florio
It takes a long time to make a painter - even with a good artist's education - but without one it tries the patience of Job; it is a great thing if one does not go backward.
~ Edward Lear
It takes a long time to fully become who you are.
~ Bjork
I am in the penitentiary. The only thing that I do is my time.
~ Suge Knight
Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.
~ Paracelsus
One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.
~ Baltasar Gracian
We should recognize that the Lord will speak to us through the Spirit in His own time and in His own way.
~ Dallin H. Oaks