Quotes About Patience

Doors don't slam open.

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it.

Anyway, I should have known better about the roses. Whatever Mum planted grew eventually. Take me for instance.

We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.

But Time and Tide and Buttered Eggs wait for no man.

We're still waiting, waiting, waiting on the world to change.

Someday, everything will make perfect sense. So for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears, be strong, and keep reminding yourself that everything happens for a reason.

Bid them be patient, and some day, anon, They shall feel earth enwrapt in silence deep; Shall greet, in wonderment, the quiet dawn, And in content may turn them to their sleep.

A million years is a short time - the shortest worth messing with for most problems. You begin tuning your mind to a time scale that is the planet's time scale. For me, it is almost unconscious now and is a kind of companionship with the earth.

Light from even a nearby star was four years old by the time it reached your eyes. Where would I be in four years? Simple: where you are. In four years I'll have reached you.

Men do not fail they give up trying.

A garden is not a matter of life or death. It is far more important than that.

What does it take to know a person? Time. It takes time.

Satisfaction was not to be gained from finishing the task; satisfaction was to be gained from the process.

Motherhood, she has come to realize, requires a lot of math: How much space is enough; how much is too much?)

So all she can hope for are unexpected moments of grace.

An irascible man who understood his own character, he would hold off on any personnel decision for twenty-four hours, allowing his judgment to dominate his temper.

A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.

The trick is to surrender completely, take your moments when you get them, don't dare want for more.

There's wisdom in applying duct tape to our mouths in suffering seasons. In the raw reality of pain, we do well to sit in silence. But it can also be dangerous to be quiet for too long.

I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we are able to honestly to pray what He taught His disciples to pray: Thy will be done.

I do know that waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one's thoughts. Its easy to talk oneself into a decision that has no permanence – easier sometimes than to wait patiently.

One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.