Quotes About Patience

I know that big, important things don't just come together overnight, but I've been me for a long time now and it's still not working.

It's very slow for me to create humor. It takes me a long time to write a humor piece. It takes days.

There is only one way to eat an elephant, a bite at a time.

Faith may have removed mountains way off somewhere, a long time ago, but it won't remove a wart at home this week.

Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.

Two years ago, I shot 'Pillars of the Earth' in Budapest - it was a big part, but I had a lot of time to sit around and visit cafes.

She may have had enough time to deal with things. What if she does come back? What will you do?" Grant asked me. What would I do? I'd beg.

The best thing you can give me is your time. The easiest way to get me angry is to waste my time.

Knowing when to keep your mouth shut is invariably more important than opening it at the right time.

I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child.

Time heals everything. Time corrects everything. Time is the solution to every problem, I believe. A lot of things can happen with time. All that has to be there is the intention.

When hope is gone, time is punishment.

Sometimes, you get things right the first time. Others, the second. But the third time, they say, is the charm.

If you could eavesdrop on everything said about you, you'd spend most of your time waiting for the subject to come up.

Design a portfolio you are not likely to trade... akin to premarital counseling advice; try to build a portfolio that you can live with for a long, long time.

Not everyone is at the top of his or her game all the time - you can't be.

Grime is not like messiness or some fingerprints on a cabinet; it takes a long time to accumulate.

Avoid running at all times.

I don't have much desire to move to LA much yet. I don't think you can expect it any time soon, but who knows what can happen in the future.

You bite off more than you can chew, 'course you're going to choke. One bite at a time. And that goes for thinking things, too, not just food.

Elves never make any major decision until they have thought the matter over for at least a year or two, gone round to all their friends and relatives and discussed the problem, done research, read tomes, consulted the sages. -And what happens then? - By then they've usually forgotten what it was they meant to do in the first place.

Being around humans over a long period of time taught me to understand that their impatience and ambition and their constant need for hurry, hurry, hurry is just their way of attempting to outrace their own mortality.

You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in your joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand...

It doesn't happen all at once, said the Skin Horse. You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.