Quotes About Patience

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet

For though the wish for friendship comes quickly, friendship does not.

One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy.

It occurred to Michael that this was the great perk of being loved: someone to wait for you, someone to tell you that it will get easier up ahead. Even when it might not be true.

Most people who are ruined are ruined by attempting too much.

Until an effort is made to satisfy that wish, the sense of uneasy waiting for something to start which has not started will remain to disturb the peace of the soul.

If you are not prepared for discouragements and disillusions; if you will not be content with a small result for a big effort, then do not begin. Lie down again and resume the uneasy doze which you call your existence.

When in doubt, say nothing and move on.

They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed.

It is not easy to run a shipping line between destinations that not only change their positions by millions of kilometers every few days, but also swing through a velocity range of tens of kilometers a second. Anything like a regular schedule is out of the question; there are times when one must forget the whole idea and stay in port—or at least in orbit—waiting for the Solar System to rearrange itself for the greater convenience of Mankind.

like everything that was worth doing, that would take time and practice.

He was still prepared to go on collecting all that life could offer, like a chambered nautilus patiently adding new cells to its slowly expanding spiral.

And as for you, Paul, I assured him that you could keep a secret for up to six days without apoplexy.

Hay una regla que he intentado respetar toda mi vida: no pierdas nunca el sueño por problemas que no está en tu mano resolver.

throughout the flight, but there

When you don't know what to do, do nothing.

but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.

To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.

He was too absurd to make me angry. Indeed, it was a waste of energy, for if you were going to be angry with this man you would be angry all the time.

but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all. - Sherlock Holmes

The example of patient suffering is in itself the most precious of all lessons to an impatient world.

It might have driven me mad; but I was always a pretty stubborn one, so I just held on and bided my time.

Patience, my friend, patience! You will find in time that it has everything to do with it.

To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces. The sea air, sunshine, and patience, Watson—all else will come.