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Quotes About Patience

Failing my driving test first time; that was a disappointment on a geological scale.
~ Richard Hammond
My spirit animal... probably like a turtle, because I have no concept of time.
~ Rita Ora
Believe that when something is meant to be, it will happen. In God's time. At the right moment. For the best reason. With the right person
~ Rita Zahara
It's like this. Father Time keeps pitching the years at us. We swing and miss at a few. We hit a few out of the park. We try not to take any called strikes.
~ Robert Breault
Joy waits on welcome, not time.
~ Robert Holden
My mother always told me the best way to learn to deal with a man was to learn to ride a mule. She said they have about equal brains most of the time. Sometimes the mule is smarter.
~ Robert Jordan
I've been on the floor and I've been heartbroken. I didn't know how I was going to stand up. But I just gave it time.
~ Sandra Bullock
I don't miss teaching. I'm learning to take my time for myself.
~ Seamus Heaney
Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.
~ T. S. Eliot
We must slow down to a human tempo and we'll begin to have time to listen.
~ Thomas Merton
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
You will have wonderful surges forward. Then there must be a time of consolidating before the next forward surge. Accept this as part of the process and never become downhearted.
~ Eileen Caddy
When you're a young actor, there's this pressure to rush. But I hope to be doing this into my sixties and seventies, so I'd prefer to take my time.
~ Felicity Jones
Success is built sequentially. It's one thing at a time.
~ Gary W. Keller
Killing time is not an easy job.
~ Haruki Murakami
The true finish is the work of time, and the use to which a thing is put. The elements are still polishing the pyramids.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I'm bidin' my time, 'Cause that's the kinda guy I'm.
~ Ira Gershwin
Real investors should never feel bearish because the time to buy value is when markets go down!
~ Irving Kahn
Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never.
~ James Baker
Things take a long time, but when it's right things move fast.
~ James Blunt
If you don't get it the first time, back up and try it again.
~ James Brown
To make new friends you have be willing to put in the time.
~ Jamie Lee Curtis
Women should not weaken their cause by impracticable demands. Make no claim which could not be won in a reasonable time. Take onestep at a time, get a good foothold in it and advance carefully.
~ Jane Swisshelm
Good software, like wine, takes time.
~ Joel Spolsky