Quotes About Patience

The one thing everyone in the Republic had plenty of was time. Whatever you didn't do today really could be put off until tomorrow.

Enid had chosen to believe the promise of his looks. Life then became a matter of waiting for his personality to change.

The slowness of change is always respectable and reasonable in the eyes of the ones who are only watching; it is a different matter for the ones who are in pain.

It is the comfortable people, by and large - those like the Reading Teacher - who make the decisions in our society. It is the people who those decisions are going to affect who are expected to stand quietly, and watch patiently, and wait.

Life hasn't signed a contract with you promising to give you everything you want. It just unfolds in its own mysterious and uncontrollable way. The more you stop resisting the way things are, the happier and more peaceful you'll be.

At the age of eighty-three he had the self-awareness necessary to be patient with other people, but not always the facility to disguise the effort.

If you pay too much attention to time, in certain tedious moments, it slows down to punish you.

There's never any percentage in being ahead of your time.

People have to be patient when they're talking to a nervous person.

When I was a boy I used to love pizza, and whenever my father took me to the pizzeria I'd order two slices. And I'd sit and he'd watch me wolfing down the first slice with my eyes on the second. I wasn't even tasting that first slice. And one day my father said to me, Son, you need to learn that while you're eating the first slice of pizza, eat the first slice. Because right now you're eating the second slice before you've finished the first.

To tugboat was to try Minna's patience. Any time you pushed your luck, said too much, overstayed a welcome, or overestimated the usefulness of a given method or approach, you were guilty of having tugged the boat. Tugboating was most of all a dysfunction of wits and storytellers, and a universal one. Anybody who thought himself funny would likely tug a boat here or there. Knowing when a joke or verbal gambit was right at its limit, quitting before the boat had been tugged, that was art.

Each might have been a week except for night's failure to come and close the deal. When

because he had been waiting for someone to come back to him, so every time someone knocked on the door, he couldn't stop himself from hoping it might be that person, even though he knew he shouldn't hope.

Weeks passed like boats waiting to sail into the starless dawn, we were full of aimless endless darkness.

It took me as long as I had known him to get rid of all of his words. Like turning an hourglass over.

I have been waiting for you for so long." I pointed to the car. "We are searching for Trachimbrod." "Oh," she said and she released a river of tears. "You are here. I am it.

Maybe I'll try to be more patient with morons.

It is said that the Messiah will come at the end of the world. But it was not the end of the world, Grandfather said. It was. He just did not come.

Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live my life.

Tomorrow was over the horizon and it would take an entire day to reach

I looked for her all day but didn't see her, not in the yard, not through a window, I promised myself I would stay until I found her, but as night began to come in, I knew I had to go home, I hated myself for going, why couldn't I be the kind of person who stays?

Grandfather and I did not utter words pending the drive, which is not abnormal, because we have never uttered multitudinous words. I made efforts not to spleen him, but nonetheless did. For one example, I forgot to examine the map, and we missed our entrance to the superway. "Please do not punch me," I said, "but I made a miniature error with the map." Grandfather kicked the stop pedal, and my face gave a high-five to the front window.

Yes, but the day has been decades.

Beware of those who promise a quick and easy way, for much ease brings many difficulties.