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Quotes About Patience

Perhaps we've time to have a look at the Number Thirty-One bus queue before we turn in.
~ Calvin Trillin
Time, ain't nothin, but time. It's a verse with no rhyme, and it all comes down to you.
~ Jon Bon Jovi
Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.
~ Gail Godwin
When you play against an experienced opponent who exploits all the defensive resources at his command you sometimes have to walk time and again, along the narrow path of 'the only move'.
~ David Bronstein
One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
An amazing observation: it is precisely for feelings that one needs time, not for thought. ... Feelings, obviously, are more demanding than thought.
~ Marina Tsvetaeva
One has to wait without impatience for what should come, and yet at the same time do everything within one's power as though one were impatient and as though one were solely responsible.
~ Rodney Collin
If you're really looking for something in particular, it helps to take your time.
~ Billy Gibbons
There is the plain fool who does the wrong thing at all times anywhere, but there is the Wall Street fool who thinks he must trade all the time.
~ Jesse Lauriston Livermore
This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough
~ Mary Hunter Austin
The photographer's art is a continuous discovery which requires patience and time.
~ Andre Kertesz
The first Chapter Law is, "Don't spend much time on it. You're going to have to rewrite it."
~ Tony Hillerman
The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got.
~ Will Rogers
One of the things Thich Nhat Hanh taught me: he says, "When you're in a hurry, go slower." That works every time, unless you're trying to catch a plane.
~ Sandra Cisneros
I find it difficult to be in rooms now for long periods of time. I can usually take it for about an hour. Then I stride out.
~ Daniel Day-Lewis
What e'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time.
~ William Shakespeare
I believe it will take time to find a solution to the problem. Thus we must have patience.
~ Boutros Boutros-Ghali
It takes a long time to understand nothing.
~ Edward Dahlberg
There's a time for words and a time for silence. If you're listening, you'll hear the difference.
~ Yasmin Mogahed
You can get anywhere if you simply go one step at a time.
~ Dave Ramsey
Now is always the hardest time to invest.
~ Bernard Baruch
When thou hast truly thanked the Lord for every blessing sent, But little time will then remain for murmur or lament.
~ Hannah More
When I was a little boy and played Liebestraum, my father used to hit me on the head with a newspaper every time I slopped the cadenza . . . I hate Liebestraum.
~ Victor Borge