Quotes About Patience

Long after he had vanished, Nostromo, lifting his eyes up to the sky, muttered, I am not dead yet.

Night, the inevitable reward of men's faithful labors on this earth ...

Mrs. Churchill, after being disliked at least twenty-five years, was now spoken of with compassionate allowances.

He knew that an apple should not be plucked while it is green. It will fall of itself when ripe, but if picked unripe the apple is spoiled, the tree is harmed, and your teeth are set on edge.

The callow birdlet waits for two or three, But to the eyes of those already fledged, In vain the net is spread or shaft is shot.

A estrada seria longa. Todas as estradas que levam ao que o nosso coração almeja são longas

constant dropping will wear away a stone

Stay focused on the now. Get through this, leave the long-term choices for the future.

Some people think the longer you can sit, the wiser you must be. I have seen chickens sitting on their nests for days on end. Wisdom comes from being mindful at all times."3

Munindra-ji, one of my first Dharma teachers, used to say that in spiritual practice, time is not a factor. Practice cannot be measured in time, so let go of the whole notion of when and how long. The practice is a process unfolding, and it unfolds in its own time. It is like the flowers that grow in the spring. Do you pull them up to make them grow faster?

The Pali word parami refers to ten wholesome qualities in our minds and the accumulated power they bring to us: generosity, morality, renunciation, wisdom, energy, patience, truthfulness, resolve, lovingkindness, and equanimity.

He was working hard at increasing his life span. He did it by cultivating boredom.

First impressions die slowly, bad impressions take even longer

The years are too short, the days are too long.

There was not enough of the patient to go around, and specialists pushed forward in line with raw tempers and snapped at their colleagues in front to hurry up and give somebody else a chance.

kid I wanted apple cheeks someday, and I decided to work at it until I got them, and by God, I did work at it until I got them, and that's how I did it, with crab apples in my cheeks

namely, never interfere when your enemies are busily engaged in flagrant acts of self-destruction.

If you try too hard to hear the telephone ring, you cannot.

Take a bottle of muddy water and let drop by drop of clear water fall into the mouth of the bottle. The moment always comes when you will have a bottle of clear water.

He that guided me this far will open up the rest of the way." That's a magnificent truth. A teacher wrote me from Alabama, and I gave him that simple

Golf can't be taught, it can only be learned.

On a cloudy day, the sun is not absent; it is merely obscured by the clouds. To experience the sun, we don't need to manufacture a new sun in front of the clouds. When the clouds part, the sun will be there, shining brightly.

Keep your thinking in the present—don't count your chickens before they hatch, and you won't be so disappointed with a broken egg once in a while.

It's not whether you win or lose in life that's important but whether you play the game. Lose enough and eventually you will win. It's only a matter of time.