Quotes About Patience

Lord, how the day passes It's like a life--so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly if we do.

The stock market is a financial redistribution system. It takes money away from those who have no patience and gives it to those who have." — Warren Buffet

by the mile it's a pile, by the yard it's hard, by the inch it's a cinch!

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose plant it this afternoon'

There came over me a terrifying sense of understanding about the meaning and the pathetic destiny of men. The desert was always there, a patient white animal, waiting for men to die, for civilizations to flicker and pass into the darkness.

The desert was always there, a patient white animal, waiting for men to die, for civilizations to flicker and pass into the darkness.

Patience! It was the least of my virtues.

I was twenty then. What the hell, I used to say, take your time, Bandini. You got ten years to write a book, so take it easy, get out and learn about life, walk the streets. That's your trouble: your ignorance of life.

He stood up. It was time to call his dad and give him a report. "He's always great in situations like this. He never lectures, never gets down. He's always encouraging. He always says, 'Okay, get back to work, and you'll get 'em tomorrow.' He's right, of course. The problem is, at some point you run out of tomorrows.

and a campfire for illumination. Usually a slow writer—he

All this will not be finished in the first hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

You're an Apprentice! You're not ready to think!" Gilan and Halt. The Ruins of Gorlan.

There are always risks in battle. It's a dangerous business. The trick is to take the right ones.' [said Halt]. 'How do you know which are the right ones?' Shigeru asked. Halt glanced at his two younger companions. They grinned and answered in chorus, 'You wait and see if you win.

Always expect trouble in the desert. Then you usually won't meet it.

You're an apprentice, you're not ready to think yet. -Ranger's Apprentice

As he poured carefully, Arrow's head turned toward the sound. The horse made a low grumbling noise in his throat. "Hold your horses," he said. The he laughed. It seemed absurd to say tat to a horse.

Now I know that if you wait until you think you are ready, you'll wait your whole life

Bear with me on this, Evanlyn. I know you're anxious about Horace." WIll was a little puzzled by Halt's words. "No more anxious than the rest of us, surely," he said. Halt turned away and raised his eyebrows as his gaze met Selethen's. Sometimes, he thought, his former apprentice could be remarkably slow on the uptake. He saw the Arridi's slow nod of understanding. ~Halt & Will about Evanlyn and Horace

Sometimes, he thought, all you could do was wait.

You've always said I should have an inquiring mind," she said. "I have. But not an interrupting one.

Problems postponed have a habit of solving themselves

Now I know that if you wait till you think you are ready, you'll wait all your life.