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Quotes About Patience

Playing golf is like raising children. You keep thinking you'll do better next time.
~ Charles E. McKenzie
Secrets are made to be found out with time.
~ Charles S. Sanford, Jr.
Suffering times are a Christian's harvest time.
~ Charles Spurgeon
It is difficult to stop in time because one gets carried away. But I have that strength; it is the only strength I have.
~ Claude Monet
He didn't say a lot so I tend to remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a lot of patience with havin to say things twice so I learned to listen the first time.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The energy problems that we face today were built up over a long period of time and are not going to be solved overnight.
~ Dana Perino
We live one day at a time and scratch where it itches.
~ Darrell Royal
Financial winners don't run sprints, they run marathons. They don't rush. They do it step by step over time.
~ Dave Ramsey
The noble path does win but only if you are prepared to make the investment over a long period of time.
~ David Maister
Whether it is done quickly or slowly, however splendid the results, the process of writing fiction is inherently, inevitably, indistinguishable from wasting time.
~ Deborah Eisenberg
I felt I came back rather quickly from being ill and didn't give myself the time to reflect.
~ Delta Goodrem
If I had wanted to ice the little toad, I would have done it a long time ago.
~ Dennis Miller
We live in a time when people give up too easy.
~ Denzel Washington
God is never late and rarely early. He is always exactly right on time--His time.
~ Dillon Burroughs
I definitely want to manage. I just don't think it's the time right now.
~ Don Mattingly
I make a note, set it aside, and hope it makes sense when the time comes to look at it again.
~ Donald E. Westlake
Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty - and vise versa. Don't read a book out of its right time for you.
~ Doris Lessing
If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.
~ Dorothy Gilman
Sometimes songs need extra time and space to really play themselves out, and some songs it's like, this is all you need, a straightforward thing.
~ Doug Martsch
Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
~ Douglas William Jerrold
A teacher or teaching is not essential for spiritual awakening, but they save time.
~ Eckhart Tolle
The best time to go fishing is when you can
~ Ed Zern
Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.
~ Albert Camus
Time is what makes good stories. Much has been cooking for a long time, and at last finds an out in narration one day. That's a supreme joy. And why the characters keep showing up.
~ Barry Hannah