Quotes About Patience

You get so frightfully hungry as soon as you learn that there are no more meals coming.

A dog, a woman, an' a walnut tree, Th' more yeh beat 'em, th' better they be! That's like us.

Dumas Malone says it perfectly: "Jefferson's vision extended farther and comprehended more than that of anybody else in public life, and, thinking of himself as working for posterity, he was more concerned that things should be well started than that they be quickly finished.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

He had quickly happened upon the truth which many lonely contemporaries would never discover, the truth that everybody, simply everybody, was panting for it and could, with patience, be shown that they were panting for it. So Adrian grabbed what was to hand and had the time of his life genitally - focusing exclusively on his own gender of course, for this was 1973 and girls had not yet been invented.

Nothing prayed for – it is life's strictest and least graceful rule – comes to you at the time of praying.

A Hungarian Jew, as he looked to observe, is the only man who can follow you into a revolving door and come out first.

Nestor considered awhile before speaking, a habit of his that irked many but which guaranteed that nothing foolish ever came from his mouth.

If days be good, they shall pass, which is a lowering thought. If they be bad, they shall pass, which is cheering.

Because it's not perfect, let's not bother. That's crazy! Even if we take three steps forward and two and a half back it's still going half a foot forward.

There's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip

We know how wars that each side believed would soon be decided can stretch out over months and years. The Greeks and Trojans were perhaps the first to discover this unhappy truth.

What he didn't say was that you don't get cold-resistant because your jackets suck, you just stop complaining about it after a while, because complaining doesn't make you any warmer.

Everything makes sense if you look at it long enough.

I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die, I have so much I want to do first

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

My disability makes this rather a slow process, so I had plenty of time.

Only time (whatever that may be) will tell.

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck

Most bad things don't happen.

because he didn't want it going through regular departmental vetting procedures, not until he knew where it was leading and what it might uncover. He operated this way frequently; it was always better to begin low-profile and let the thing develop slowly, undistorted by the pressures of expectation.

Patience gives your spouse permission to be human. It understands that everyone fails. When a mistake is made, it chooses to give them more time that they deserve to correct it. It gives you the ability to hold on during the rough times in your relationship rather than bailing out under the pressure.

When all else fails, give up and go to the library.

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.