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Quotes About Patience

The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ask yourself, "When does this decision have to be taken?" and having answered it, defer the decision until then, in order to give yourself maximum pondering time.
~ John Cleese
Murder may pass unpunishd for a time, But tardy justice will oertake the crime.
~ John Dryden
Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.
~ John Leguizamo
The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
~ John Locke
I like finding a great shot and then just staying with it for a long time, not trying to pump things up with some kind of artificial energy by cutting.
~ Jonathan Demme
The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.
~ Josh Billings
In chess you might find a good move. Then you might find a better move. But take your time. Find the best move.
~ Joshua Waitzkin
If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right.
~ Joyce Johnson
If we are forever yearning for more time, we are forever discounting what is offered.
~ Julia Cameron
The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.
~ Billy Graham
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
~ Abraham Lincoln
When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.
~ A.W. Tozer
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
~ Dan Rather
Clock watchers never seem to be having a good time.
~ James Cash Penney
Time is generally the best doctor.
~ Ovid
I'm taking one thing at a time. With the children and launching my solo career it would drive me to a nervous breakdown if I tried to organise a wedding on top of that.
~ Natasha Hamilton
You never can tell with bees.
~ A. A. Milne
If the weeds are pulled out of the garden too soon, the too shallow roots of the plants developing around it get pulled up with the weed also. Time is what is needed before criticism can be useful.
~ Allison Mackie
Good manners require space and time.
~ Alphonse de Lamartine
Man goes nowhere, everything comes to man like tomorrow.
~ Antonio Porchia
For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.
~ Aristotle
If something happens, you have to realize that you can't just yell at people all the time.
~ Arthur Blank