Quotes About Patience

Do yourself a favor. Don't ever say to me, 'Everything happens for a reason.'

Everything is happening for a reason, it's preparing you for bigger things.

To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

I don't recall ever desiring to go as fast as possible.

I recall my mum tried to teach me how to fry chicken once, and I almost burned down half the kitchen... I don't think I have the patience for cooking.

I don't force things. I can have a wish, and then I let God lead me on the path, bringing me what I need - and always trying to be alert to receive it.

My advice for folks on networking is give, give, give. You will later receive. But you are really planting these seeds. Some of them will die, and they won't become anything. Many of them will take many, many years before they pay off for you if at all.

Hope looks forward. Faith knows it has already received and acts accordingly.

Though it seems curious, I do not remember ever asking for anything but what I got it. And I always received it as an answer to my prayers.

It couldn't be more satisfying to work on something almost anonymously for years, then to have it received affectionately with support.

I'd never been paid for the first Roses LP - it was 2002 before we received any royalties.

I recently purchased an iPad 2 because I didn't want to wait for the iPad 3 and iPad 4.

Be sure to read a recipe all the way through before you cook. The time it saves you in the long run is invaluable.

This is Test cricket. Being positive is not far away from being reckless. For all that the sport has become more fast-flowing and entertaining, you still need batsmen whose first instinct is to be patient.

Name recognition takes time.

It was such a leap in my career when 'Truman Show' came along. It's always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that's OK because you appreciate it when it comes.

Obama does seem to have what both FDR and Lincoln had, which is the recognition that you have to hold back at times and then wait to come forward.

It doesn't bother me that I didn't get all the recognition. It really doesn't. I tried to keep things as honest as possible. People will either appreciate it over the years or they won't.

People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book.

Watching 'Moonlight,' I just recognized this patience in the film - allowing moments to live and linger - and I just thought that was so beautiful.

Seeing all of these beautiful brown faces and having that patience for them to live in whatever it was that they were living in; I was just so blown away by the artistry that I recognized in 'Moonlight' - the colors, the music.

Sometimes you think that a reconstruction project can be done more quickly than you expected.

I think if we go back and check our record, the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than patient in seeking our rights as American citizens.

I know that bands that haven't put out a record for 10 years are playing to 20,000 people a night. But that's not the achievement.