Quotes About Patience

You cannot rectify every real or alleged wrong immediately. Time must enter into the picture.

A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.

As a general rule, the longer a man's fame is likely to last, the later it will be in coming; for all excellent products require time for their development.

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

True ownership of anything requires time.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

The books say that it is not so serious to lose time in a closed position; I am lucky, since these comments have not harmed me too much.

I'm sittin' on my watch so I can be on time.

Trying to hit Phil Niekro is like trying to eat jello with chopsticks. Sometimes you get a piece but most of the time you get hungry.

If you want to sail your ship in a different direction, you must turn one degree at a time.

A show needs time to find an audience, and they're very quick to pull them off the air now.

I always question whether it's the right time for anything I do.

You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration.

Christian said he'd call the next day, but in boy time that meant Thursday.

I'm not one that just throws music out there to keep it coming, and all that. I believe in the craft, and the time it takes to really nurture something and put a lot of effort into the details.

The only advice I would give Christians entering the world of arts: give yourself a period of time, maybe three or four years. If you haven't made it in your chosen art form, dump it.

and here I felt a strange leaping of my heart-God did! My job was to simply follow His leading one step at a time, holding every decision up to him in prayer.

Another head - and a black alpaca jacket and a serviette this time - to tell us coffee is ready. Not before it is time, too.

Investors repeatedly jump ship on a good strategy just because it hasn't worked so well lately, and, almost invariably, abandon it at precisely the wrong time.

The best advice I ever received was to not rush time. Things will present themselves when the time is right.

It's a difficult time for a lot of people right now.

I decided a long time ago but sometimes it takes you 40 years to get around to doing something - and that's the truthful answer.

As far as I know, if you take your time, write a good script and make a good film, then give the audience time, they will accept it.

There is always time to take more time.