Quotes About Patience

Did you ever think...that a seed can't start reaching up to the sun until something in it has gone down first into the earth?...I'm not sure that a man can go far if he hasn't first learned to bow before something bigger than he is.

One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.

If you are seeking health, wealth, usefulness, skill in any direction, there is nothing and no one who can hinder your attainment of the coveted boon, if you are willing to work and wait

Why, even Death stands still and waits an hour for such a will.

THE LIFE WORTH WHILE Like one blindfolded groping out his way, I will not try to touch beyond to-day. Since all the future is concealed from sight, I need but strive to make the next step right.

All my scattering moments are taken up with my needle.

Counting the minute-long seconds and the hour-long minutes.

I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.

Procrastination is not the problem. It is the solution. Procrastinate now, don't put it off.

You just have to keep driving down the road. It's going to bend and curve and you'll speed up and slow down, but the road keeps going.

Quick decision makers are often stuck behind annoying people in line at Starbucks.

To be honest, I'd be the last person who should be doling out gardeinng advice. I don't have the patience for growing things. Yes, I realize there's nothing quite as satisfying as eating food that you've pulled up from the ground and that's why, at the height of the planting season, I bury cans of tomato soup in my backyard and dig them up in late spring.

Though you feel you're not where you're suppose to be, you shouldn't worry because that next turn that you take, it will lead you to where you wanna go.

You just have to keep driving down the road. It's going to bend and curve and you'll speed up and slow down, but the road keeps going.

It's hard to understand failure when you're going through it, but in the grand scheme of things it's good to fall down—not because you're drunk and not near stairs.

Its the same for every career and life decision. You just have to keep driving down the road. It's going to bend and curve, and you're going to speed up and slow down, but the road keeps going.

Slow down your mind. Slower. Think about how slow you have to drive when there's someone on a bicycle in front of you in the middle of your lane. Are you annoyed? Don't be.

If there is any message I want you to take from this book, it is that befriending a parrot can be both frustrating and infinitely rewarding.

Let the naysayers nay. They will eventually grow tired of naying.

Things will get easier, people's minds will change and you should be alive to see it

Our attention span is shot. We've all got Attention Deficit Disorder or ADD or OCD or one of these disorders with three letters because we don't have the time or patience to pronounce the entire disorder. That should be a disorder right there, TBD - Too Busy Disorder.

You stop waiting anxiously for the phone to ring—because you're too busy living and pursuing your goals whether he calls or not.

You don't grovel. You're not desperate or anxious. You don't date men who don't want you. You trust in the abundance and goodness of the universe: if not him, someone better, you say. You don't settle. You don't chase anyone. You don't use sex to make men love you.

In all your temporal concerns, in all your cares and anxieties, wait upon the Lord.