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Quotes About Patience

In life, worthwhile accomplishments and acquisitions take time. Usually the better the reward, the more time it takes to acquire it.
~ John Wooden
It is said that life is too short, and that's quite true, unless you are lonely. Loneliness can bring time to its knees; an absolute and utter standstill.
~ Jonathan Hull
Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race.
~ Jose Bergamin
Life is a puzzle that I feel like we'll never fully put together.
~ Josh McDermitt
We must meditate on what God has done in our life instead of what we are still waiting on Him to do.
~ Joyce Meyer
Many people say "my life stinks". Well, your life will stink if you spend today thinking about tomorrow.
~ Joyce Meyer
Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.
~ Joyce Meyer
I have many things I want out of life, but I'm practical. I know that I must wait to get what I want.
~ Jude Deveraux
Ybon was the one who suggested calling the wait something else. Yeah, like what? Maybe, she said, you could call it life.
~ Junot Diaz
In my life, I'd like to play more golf and, and get a decent handicap.
~ Ken Buck
To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.
~ Kenneth Clark
I've been second my whole life.
~ Kevin Durant
The at-home mother's life: it was a race with no finish line.
~ Kristin Hannah
Sometimes while you wait for what you think is better, Philomene said, what is good enough slips away.
~ Lalita Tademy
Sometimes you don't know it. What you have been waiting your whole life for. You don't know until it is happening.
~ Laura Dave
One couldn't spend one's entire life waiting for life to start.
~ Laura Lee
I can't give up that quick My life is a candle and a wick You can put it out, but you can't break it down In the end we are waiting to be lit
~ Laura Marling
It is said that in life we must play with the cards we are dealt, but too often I have kept those cards too close to my chest.
~ Lawrence Fagg
Timing in life is everything.
~ Leonard Maltin
I do not think that life has a suspense more sickening than that of expecting a letter which does not come.
~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon
That's always the way in life: the longer you leave things, the harder they are to do.
~ Lisa Jewell
It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present.
~ Loren Eiseley
I always had the sense with her that she didn't suffer fools gladly but that life was taking great pains to show her how.
~ Lorrie Moore