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Quotes About Patience

Everyone's light turns on at their own time.
~ Donald Young
Don't read a book out of its right time for you.
~ Doris Lessing
With time some poems just fall by the wayside. Other poems get better over time with revision, revision, revision. My ladybug poem took 10 minutes to write but was 10 years in the making.
~ Douglas Florian
"No" is just a moment in time.
~ Brian Grazer
My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.
~ Jill Tweedie
Today everything must be easy and it mustn't take time ... ready meals. Powdered hot chocolate and instant coffee ... Living takes time. We need to give each other time.
~ Karin Fossum
Wholeheartedly do what it takes to awaken your clear-seeing intelligence, but one day at a time, one moment at a time. If we live that way, we will benefit this earth.
~ Pema Chodron
So little time we live in Time, And we learn all so painfully, That we may spare this hour's term To practice for Eternity.
~ Robert Penn Warren
If you are killing time, are you damaging eternity?
~ Steven Wright
There is a season for everything, patience will reward you and reveal all answers to your questions.' 'Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away.
~ Elvis Presley
Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.
~ Eric Clapton
There is so much to teach, and the time goes so fast.
~ Erma Bombeck
There are no shortcuts to spiritual maturity. It takes time to be holy.
~ Erwin W. Lutzer
I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. ... for years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.
~ Florence Nightingale
By the time everyone catches up with you, you're bored.
~ Fran Lebowitz
No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.
~ Francis Bacon
It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.
~ George Bernard Shaw
For the third trilogy, I don't know if I will still be alive when it comes the time to make them.
~ George Lucas
The time for speaking seldom arrives, the time for being never departs.
~ George MacDonald
Fights take a long time to shoot.
~ Greg Bryk
Never run from what you don't understand, as it will be waiting for you every time you come to a stop.
~ Guy Finley
What's your hurry?" Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
It's hard to get along with people. As much as you try to like them and accept them as individuals, it becomes difficult because they keep getting out of line and wasting your time.
~ Henry Rollins