Quotes About Patience

Digital [photography] has sped up the process to a point that it's a bit self-destructive. It is like driving by a new neighborhood without stopping for a walk. Special discoveries need time.

Some wounds should be healed, no matter how much time has passed or how much time is left.

I'm known for being a good listener. Most people need a lot of love and encouragement and I'm more than willing to give a person all the encouragement and time they need.

Understand that writing is like an athletic activity. To play tennis well, you expect to keep practicing, but for some reason with writing, you think you should come out fresh the first time.

A lot of the time nothing happens in a day.

I don't have 4 or 5 projects in front of me and an offer on every one saying 'what one would you like to do?' Things come along one at a time.

People have to do things in their own time, and that's what I did.

Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day.

Keep moving. Don't stop. But don't rush. Don't race around. Sure and steady gets you there every time.

There is nothing so annoying as having two people talking when you're busy interrupting.

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.

His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

Write without pay until someone offers pay. If nobody offers within three years, the candidate may look upon this as a sign that sawing wood is what he was intended for.

Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?

Some things you can't find out; but you will never know you can't by guessing and supposing: no, you have to be patient and go on experimenting until you find out that you can't find out.

There is no easy or quick plan to happiness, there is no single spot where you can start. Where you are right now is the best place to begin.

What God wills, will happen; thou canst not hurry it, thou canst not alter it; therefore wait; and be patient

Loose and forbear!

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

This ain't no thirty-seven year job, this is a thirty-eight year job, Tom Sawyer.

On a book by Henry James: Once you put it down, you simply can't pick it up.