Selected patience quotes

1. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.

2. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

3. I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.

4. There may be a time in life when one is tired of everything and feels as if all one does is wrong, and there maybe some truth in it - do you think this is a feeling one must try to forget and to banish, or is it 'the longing for God,' which one must not fear, but cherish to see if it may bring us some good? Is it 'the longing for God' which leads us to make a choice which we never regret? Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.

5. In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

6. You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.

7. Man is the result of slow growth; that is why he occupies the position he does in animal life. What does a pup amount to that has gained its growth in a few days or weeks, beside a man who only attains it in as many years.

8. Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.

9. The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass.

10. Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir.

11. Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

12. Hold on to me: Someday I may be quite valuable.

13. When you plan a journey from your mind into mine, remember to allow for the time difference.

14. Time will end all my troubles, but I don't always approve of Time's methods.

15. Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.

16. I can but die... and I believe in God. Let me try and wait His will in silence.

17. The curse of the intelligent man is that he will always find himself surrounded by the ignorant. The measure of the intelligent man is determined by his tolerance toward them.

18. I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.

19. In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

20. Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again.

21. Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on.

22. Our patience will achieve more than our force.

23. I hope it won't take long.

24. What merit there is in my thinking is derived from two peculiarities: (1) My inability to be familiar with anything. I simply can't take things for granted. (2) My endless patience. I assume that the only way to find an answer is to hang on long enough and keep groping.

25. To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

26. The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

27. He that has patience may compass anything.

28. There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.

29. In conclusion, if you want to unravel the multitude of secrets of chess then don't begrudge the time.

30. If you live long enough, lots of nice things happen.

31. This crusade, this war on terrorism is going to take a while.

32. The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

33. Natural heart's ivy, Patience masks Our ruins of wrecked past purpose.

34. Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

35. When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.

36. Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of any help except by being kind, generous, and patient.

37. Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.

38. Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

39. Rome was not built in one day.

40. The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

41. Without infinite patience it is impossible to get the people to do any work.

42. Men disappoint me so, I disappoint myself so, yet courage, patience, shuffle the cards ...

43. Rien n'est plus lent que la veritable naissance d'un homme.

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

45. Frank [Arnesen] asked me first to be the head coach, and then he said 'yeah, well we need a big name' so they get another fellow in, and that was ok with me because I knew I only had to wait 'til January.

46. He ranged his tropes, and preached up patience; Backed his opinion with quotations.

47. I don't want to do something for the sake of it. I am prepared to wait. If I wait until I am buried, too bad.

48. You walk down the street at night. It's raining out. The only sound is that of your own feet. There are city sounds too, but these you don't hear because at the end of the street is the woman you've been waiting for for seven long years and each muffled tread of your footsteps takes you closer and closer and the sound of them marks off seconds and days and months of waiting. Then, suddenly, you're there, outside a dark-faced building, a brownstone anachronism that stares back dully with the defiant expression of the moronic and you have an impending sense of being challenged.

49. Sometimes the other side is irresistibly strong, and then the only sensible course of action is to retreat in order to save your force to fight another day.

50. Better to listen than speak at a time like this.

51. He simply learned how to be patient. How to bide his time.

52. He doesn't care about making a good impression. He doesn't hurry to ingratiate himself with people. He takes his time sizing up a situation and then finds the least troublesome way to his goal.

53. He has the attention span of a bolt of lightning.

54. Une occasion manquee se retrouve, tandis qu'on ne revient jamais d'une demarche precipitee.

55. La vengeance est un plat qui se mange froid.

56. Young people -it is obvious -cannot achieve such a relationship, but they can, if they understand their life properly, grow up slowly to such happiness and prepare themselves for it. They must not forget, when they love, that they are beginners, bunglers of life, apprentices in love- must learn love, and that like all learning wants peace, patience, and composure.

57. Ever from one who comes to-morrow Men wait their good and truth to borrow.

58. I wish, sir, you would practice this without me. I can't stay dying here all night.

59. The timeless, surly patience of the serf That moves the nearest to the naked earth And ploughs down palaces, and thrones, and towers.

60. Patience and forebearance ease the burden of misfortunes on man, facilitate the difficulties and strengthen the will and resolution.

61. Do not ever become disappointed in your affairs for all things do not become rectified at once and major works are carried out little by little.

62. To swallow gudgeons ere they're catched, And count their chickens ere they're hatched.

63. Spiritual practice is difficult in the beginning. You wonder how on earth you can ever do it. But as you get used to it, the practice gradually becomes easier. Do not be too stubborn or push yourself too hard. If you practice in accord with your individual capacity, little by little you will find more pleasure and joy in it. As you gain inner strength, your positive actions will gain in profundity and scope.

64. Let what will be said or done, preserve your sang-froid immovably, and to every obstacle, oppose patience, perseverance, and soothing language.

65. Justice may wink a while, but see at last.

66. As in his public affairs, so in his private life the American rarely prepares himself for the future. He is wholly unwilling to have anything transmitted to him by water that he can get by rail. It irks him to wait the slow process of freighting when there is an express car coming to his town, and if somebody will soon discover how to deliver by aeroplane, that is the way he will obtain what he wants. He never wants it until he wants it, and when he wants it, he wants it at once. The farmer does not look over his machinery in the winter time to ascertain what it needs in the way of repair; but waits until a week or ten days before he needs it and then telegraphs for the repair parts to be sent by express.

67. An act like ours wouldn't even be around today if someone hadn't brought us along and let us make mistakes and grow at our own pace. Today it seems that if you don't have a hit - or even if you do - they have no use for you the next time.

68. We're overdue for a dream come true. Long time nothing new. We're overdue for a dream come true.

69. And someone will head south 'til this whole thing cools off.

70. Waiting for the sun to shine And you know sometimes it gets so painful Just like talking to yourself When everything don't seem to have no rhyme or reason we all go Do do loo do do, do do loo do do Waiting for the sun to shine.

71. Hic tibi ne qua morae fuerint dispendia tanti, quamuis increpitent socii et ui cursus in altum uela uocet, possisque sinus implere secundos, quin adeas uatem precibusque oracula poscas ipsa canat uocemque uolens atque ora resoluat. illa tibi Italiae populos uenturaque bella et quo quemque modo fugiasque ferasque laborem expediet, cursusque dabit uenerata secundos. haec sunt quae nostra liceat te uoce moneri.

72. Opinion is not worth a rush.

73. O when may it suffice? That is heaven's part, our part To murmur name upon name.

74. 'A Sort of a Song' from The Wedge (1944)

75. Beware of desp'rate steps! The darkest day (Live till tomorrow) will have passed away.

76. Dilsey stroked Ben's head, slowly and steadily, smoothing the bang upon his brow. He wailed quietly, unhurriedly. 'Hush,' Dilsey said. 'Hush, now. We be gone in a minute. Hush, now.' He wailed quietly and steadily.

77. Now grows together that belongs together.

78. Cease, gentle Maid, cease, cease to grieve, Thy Goddess does thy Pray'rs receive, And Providence will Thee relieve. Those, who on Providence depend, And patiently its Will attend, Shall be rewarded in the End, By Ways and Means least thought upon, That Mortals may be forc'd to own Their Help comes from the Gods alone.

79. The Elephant is never won with Anger, Nor must that man, who would reclaim a Lion, Take him by the teeth.

80. I certainly haven't been shopping for any new shoes, And I certainly haven't been spreading myself around I still only travel by foot, and by foot it's a slow climb But I'm good at being uncomfortable, So I can't stop changing all the time

81. I was clear, Alice Toklas says and very often mistaken but anyway I am clear I am a good American, I am slow-minded and quickly clear in expression, I am certain that I see everything that is seen and in between I stand around but I do not wait, no American can wait he can stand around and do nothing but he cannot wait, that is why he is not like Milton who served by standing and waiting, Americans can neither serve nor wait, they can stand and sit down and get up and walk around but they can neither serve nor wait. ~ Ch. 5

82. 'And I was wondering why it took so long for me to get to a World Series -- 4200+ games, 30+ years ... Well, I guess the Good Lord was just waiting for me to put on the pinstripes.' 1996

83. Haste maketh waste.

84. 'Mary, Mary, quite contrary how does your garden grow? Hydropnic, ultra-supersonic, or does it grow naturally slow?' - Ganja Babe

85. I ordered a chicken sandwich but I think the waitress mis-understood me because she said, 'How would you like your eggs?' So I tried to answer her anyhow. I said 'Incubated, and then raised, and then beheaded, and then plucked and then cut up then put onto a grill then put onto a bun. Shit, it's gonna take awhile. I don't have time, scrambled!' - Live in Seattle, December 3, 2004

86. It never rains when you want it to You humble me, Lord

87. I can't hold on very long Forgive me, pretty baby, but I always take the long way home

88. Unlike you, Wiggin, I do give the other guy a chance to learn what he's doing before I insist on perfection

89. Maybe if I could bear my life as it is for one day, for one hour, for one minute, I could forget my wish to be something else

90. Waiting your time, dreaming of a better life Waiting your time, you're more than just a wife

91. She has not won a case yet for me and we've sued, probably, in the last three years... several hundred people, but this one-- god, I feel so good about it.

92. Harto presto, si bien.

93. It's too early to tell.

94. So who's in a hurry?

95. I'm working on that.

96. J'ai failli attendre.

97. Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch Till the white-wing'd reapers come!

98. It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.

99. Fishing is a jerk at one end of a line waiting for a jerk at the other end of a line.

100. My favorite poet was Aeschylus. He wrote: 'In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.'