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Quotes About Patience

Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
~ Igor Stravinsky
I basically had the idea when I was 18 that I wanted to write my own songs. I knew it was going to be a long, tough road, and I was like, if I just begin now, by the time I'm 40, I'll be good at it.
~ Jason Mraz
Excellence is a signal to God that we are going to dig our ditches but if You don't make it rain, all of this is a waste of time.
~ Jeff Henderson
If you take the time away, you take the character away.
~ Jim Capaldi
They say revenge is a dish best eaten cold, but for most people, by the time it's ready to eat, they just don't fancy it any more.
~ Jo Brand
Through the dark and stormy night Faith beholds a feeble light Up the blackness streaking; Knowing God's own time is best, In a patient hope I rest For the full day-breaking!
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
Spend as much time as you can with your mouth shut and your eyes and ears open.
~ John Jakes
I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years.
~ John McGahern
I didn't want to be a director for hire. It really just took me a long time to learn how to direct and to feel up to the job.
~ Judd Apatow
Students think they must write down the idea immediately, but I tell them if it's a good idea it'll be in your head in five minutes' time.
~ Judith Weir
Filling all the way to the brim is not as good as halting in time.
~ Laozi
Moving. Someone said this to me a long time ago, it's bhuddist saying, I think: 'There is no wasted effort'.
~ Lauren Graham
Feelings aren't forever. Time waits for no one, but progress waits for man to enact it.
~ Lauren Oliver
You can just fight one man at a time.
~ Lennox Lewis
The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence.
~ Leonard Cohen
We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
I have reasons to believe that I could win the World Cup, but I take it one race at a time.
~ Marcel Hirscher
Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
In an easy and relaxed manner, in a healthy and positive way, in its own perfect time.
~ Mark Allen
Experience teaches us only one thing at a time - and hardly that, in my case.
~ Mark Twain
We cannot study everything at the same time.
~ Matthieu Ricard
It takes a long time for words to become thought.
~ May Sarton
We can drink soup with a fork, it will only take long time! As long as we are patient, we can drink it even with a tiny pin!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
It's frustrating actually, the time involved in getting something released these days. My new CD has actually been finished for a year. It's only now that it's being released
~ Mick Taylor