Quotes About Patience

For things to land in you're lap. You must be sitting down.

The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.

usually little response until two or three treatments

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

Do not repay anyone evil for evil…. Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God's wrath…. Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good." Romans 12:17, 19,21.

Nikdy nep?erušuj nep?ítele, když se dopouští omylu.

No news is ever as good or as bad as it first seems

Paul Hutchens

Be patient with all that is unresolved in your heart, And try to love the questions themselves. Do not seek for the answers that cannot be given, For you would not be able to live them, And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now, And perhaps, without knowing it, You will live along some distant day Into the answers. Rainer Rilke

But you need to cultivate patience, youngling. And you need to listen to my words of wisdom, because as far as you are concerned, I am Obi-Wan fucking Kenobi. Okay?

Better the fool who remains silent than the fool who who speaks and demonstrates his foolishness. Better still, the one who listens carefully.

As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end.

One is reminded of the old joke about the centipede who was asked how he managed to coordinate his 100 legs : He started thinking about it and could never walk properly again.

It's easy 'nough to titter w'en de stew is smokin' hot,But hit's mighty ha'd to giggle w'en dey's nuffin' in de pot.

A prosecutor is a stolid carpenter who patiently hammers his wood into place as he builds a house, one board at a time. A defense lawyer is a nihilistic vandal who finds the support beam and pulls down the house before it's complete.

When the woman you love is angry, it's best to give her space, time, and copious quantities of wine.

Getting Steve to open up was a lot like opening a jar of martini olives. It helps if you bang on his lid a few times.

Si quieres qué Dios se ría, dile tus planes.

Distance runners are their own breed. Skinny. Self-sufficient. Patient. Able to endure and conquer pain. Often loners

Fucking things up only takes a few minutes. Making things right, now, that's a lifetime job.

Distance runners are their own breed. Skinny. Self-sufficient. Patient. Able to endure and conquer pain.

Learning lines is on my mind until I do know them. I'll read the paper or paint the house to keep from starting to memorize. I've never found an easy way.

I kept my heart alive in the desert years by turning it into a valentine, holding on to the hope of every romantic cliché like wedding cake under a pillow. If you have to wait as long as I did, you either become an awful sentimentalist or die of disillusion.

I suppose we'd been waiting for each other all our lives.