Quotes About Patience

Take life one day at a time, and make each day better than the last.

Nonviolent action, on the other hand, requires more patience because the action is less thrilling.

Taliban: Americans have all the watches, but we have all the time.

I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.

A partir du mois de septembre l'année dernière, je n'ai plus rien fait d'autre qu'attendre un homme : qu'il me téléphone et qu'il vienne chez moi.

Never trouble trouble, till trouble troubles you'? The wise words

But I have discovered something about modest people. They're just waiting for the call. Then they are the first over the wall and into the temple.

Jetzt bleibt ihm nur noch er Tod, doch der lässt auf sich warten, weil Mahmoud ein Gewohnheitstier ist und sich daran ewöhnt hat, am Leben zu sein.

Put the kettle on. Look out the kitchen window. Love that remains.

Zizhang asked, "What is keen discernment?" Confucius said, "When slanders that seep under the skin and grievances that cause pain do not drive you to an immediate response, you may be said to have keen discernment.

Willpower is just another name for the idea of choosing long-term outcomes rather than short-term ones.

I am not a fan of people who abuse service staff. In fact, I find it intolerable. It's an unpardonable sin as far as I'm concerned, taking out personal business or some other kind of dissatisfaction on a waiter or busboy.

His hands flew, twirled, an entire ballet with ten digits. It had taken him, he told me, three years, during his training and apprenticeship, just to be considered as having mastered rice alone. For three years in his first kitchen, it had been all he'd been allowed to touch.

Mexican food is about taking the time to do it right, about hours of slow simmering.

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.

Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely.

None of this seemed to be getting us much further so far as Widmerpool was concerned. I waited for development. General Conyers did not intend to be hurried. I suspected that he might regard this narrative he was unfolding in so leisurely a manner as the last good story of his life; one that he did not propose to squander in the telling. That was reasonable enough.

In due course one learns, where individuals and emotions are concerned, that Time's slide-rule can make unlikely adjustments.

One belief that I've developed to carry me through extremely tough times is simply this: God's delays are not God's denials.

Success is buried on the other side of frustration.

Deciding to commit yourself to long term results rather than short term fixes is as important as any decision you'll make in your lifetime.

God's delays are not God's denials.