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Be Patient Quotes

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.
- Mark Twain

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.
- Cecelia Ahern

I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.
- Jesse Jackson

Be patient, hand," he said. "I do this for you.
- Ernest Hemingway

And St. Francis said: 'My dear son, be patient, because the weaknesses of the body are given to us in this world by God for the salvation of the soul. So they are of great merit when they are borne patiently.
- St Francis Of Assisi

It's up to brave hearts, sir, to be patient when things are going badly, as well as being happy when they're going well... For I've heard that what they call fortune is a flighty woman who drinks too much, and, what's more, she's blind, so she can't see what she's doing, and she doesn't know who she's knocking over or who she's raising up.
- Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Don't settle. Know what you want and reach for it. And if you don't know what you want, be patient.
The answers will
come to you in time, and you may find that your heart s desire has been right under your nose all the
while.
- Julia Quinn

Do little things every day that no one else seems to want to do, be patient, and success will find you.
- Brandi L Bates

The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
- Henry Ward Beecher

You've got to clock the hours and pay your dues. Then eventually, people will come to you. You have to be patient and appreciative.
- Elisabeth Rohm

But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don't put the work and the effort into it. You've got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall.
- Anna Benson

Smartass Disciple: Master, what are you talking about? None of us understand!
Master of Stupidity: Be patient! It is not ended yet. The end justifies the means.
- Toba Beta

Be patient, for the world is broad and wide.
- William Shakespeare

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
- Phillips Brooks

We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.
- Tom Brown Jr

My poetry lives in the spaces of time, in between time, in time out. It is not a constant vibe; I catch it like the incoming tide, going out again. It will not let me say what I want to say for words cannot be woven together to express me that way. My words have learned to be patient for nothing. Now is my time out.
- Tonny K Brown

... Mrs. Lambchop sighed and shook her head. "You're at the office all day, having fun," she said. "You don't realize what I go through with the boys. They're very difficult."
Kids are like that," Mr. Lambchop said. "Phases. Be patient, dear.
- Jeff Brown

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

To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20.
- Marian Wright Edelman

He was sometimes stern but more often kindly---just according to his lights, but he saw the world in simple shades of black and white, and found it hard to be patient with things that struck him as foolishness.
- John Christopher

A word to those of you out there who have yet to be offended by something I have said: Please be patient. I am working as fast as I can.
- Ann Coulter

We ask the great masses of India to be patient a short time longer, while the cause of freedom is being fought out, not because we want to delay, but because the hard facts of war make a complete change impossible at the moment.
- Stafford Cripps

In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something.
- Stanley Crouch

Ideally, I'm also sending a message that everything passes, even hope, and sometimes you have to be patient while you wait for it to come back around again.
- Heather Donahue

If it's a slow race you have to be on your guard. You have to be patient, but I prefer that.
- Michael East

...life (pause) is a struggle, and if you should feel really happy, be patient: this will pass.
- Garrison Keillor

We come from people who brought us up to believe that life is a struggle, and if you should feel really happy, be patient: this will pass.
- Garrison Keillor

Be patient, darling, and try to trust both your heavenly and your earthly father. You know that no trial can come to you without your heavenly Father's will, and that He means this for your good. Look to Him and he will help you to bear it, and send relief in His own good time and way.
- Martha Finley

Perhaps, in retrospect, there would be little motivation even for malevolent extraterrestrials to attack the Earth; perhaps, after a preliminary survey, they might decide it is more expedient just to be patient for a little while and wait for us to self-destruct.
- Carl Sagan

Be patient and wait. Your mud will settle. Your water will be clear.
- James Frey

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.
- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

She and Marie were Montreal girls, not trained to accompany heroes, or to hold out for dreams, but just to be patient.
- Mavis Gallant

My firm resolve was to escape my wicked cousin and my English captors. But the wind was howling, and rain was coming down in sheets. And even as I relaxed in a hot bath in my snug apartments, the clamor of the storm outside was counseling me to be patient and wait.
A wise woman never does anything in a hurry.
- Margaret George

Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.
- Vincent Van Gogh

Be patient, do nothing, cease striving. We find this advice disheartening and therefore unfeasible because we forget it is our own inflexible activity that is structuring the reality. We think that if we do not hustle, nothing will happen and we will pine away. But the reality is probably in motion and after a while we might take part in that motion. But one can't know.
- Paul Goodman

Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim....Be patient and strong; someday this pain will be useful to you.
- Karen White

I write a book over a period of months or years, and when I'm done with it, usually another year goes by before I see it in print. It's hard to be patient and wait.
- Margaret Haddix

Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia.
- Mary Schmich

Do one thing every day that scares you...Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own...Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.
- Mary Schmich

Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.
- Thomas Holcroft

Be patient and calm; no one can catch fish in anger.
- Herbert Hoover

Don't allow yourself to become disheartened when the thread doesn't suit or seems unsightly to you. Wait and watch. Be patient and devoted. As the threads twist and turn, you will begin to understand, and you will see the pattern finally materialize in all its splendor.
- Colleen Houck

Pray a little more, work a little harder, save, wait, be patient and, most of all, live within our means. That's the American way. It's not spending ourselves into prosperity or taxing ourselves into prosperity.
- Mike Huckabee

Life is a egg you have to be patient and carefull with it or it will brake
- Langston Hughes

Let us make a pledge now to help Fiji through this very important next stage of its journey. We can do this by promising to be patient, calm and tolerant and by respecting the views of others, even if we disagree with them.
- Josefa Iloilo

To be gentle you have to be patient.
- Jarod Kintz

Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye.
- Ken Kesey

There are many really good teams in our conference this season. Miami, Indiana and Detroit will be our fiercest opponents this year. But we just have to focus on our game and be patient with the realistic hope that we'll be on top after all is said and done.
- Jason Kidd

Just be patient, she told herself, and with the mounting pages, the strength of her writing fist grew.
- Markus Zusak

...for it is the fate of a woman
Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that is speechless,
Till some questioning voice dissolves the spell of its silence.
Hence is the inner life of so many suffering women
Sunless and silent and deep, like subterranean rivers
Runnng through caverns of darkness..
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

... the pursuit of origins is a way of rescuing territory from death and oblivion, a reconquest that ought to be patient, devoted, relentless and faithful.
- Amin Maalouf

If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to -music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don't just stick there scowling at the problem. But don't make telephone calls or go to a party; if you do, other people's words will pour in where your lost words should be. Open a gap for them, create a space. Be patient.
- Hilary Mantel

You have to be patient with him. Travis doesn't remember much about it, but he was close to his mom, and after we lost her he was never the same. I thought he'd grow out of it, you know, with him being so young. It was hard on all of us, but Trav... he quit trying to love people after that. I was surprised that he brought you here. The way he acts around you, the way he looks at you; I knew you were somethin' special.
- Jamie Mcguire

I will. I've never wanted a girlfriend before, Pigeon. I'm not used to feeling this way about someone...about anyone. If you'll be patient with me, I swear I'll get it figured out.
- Jamie Mcguire

Keep your head up and be patient.
- A J Mclean

Be brave and be patient. Have faith in yourself; trust in the significance of your life and the purpose of your passion. You are strong enough to sit in the space between spaces and allow divine inspiration to shed some light. When you put positive energy and productive effort into the world it will come back to you. Occasionally in ways you might not immediately understand and on a time frame you didn't expect. Look. Listen. Learn. Stay open. Your destiny is awaiting you.
- Jillian Michaels

If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.
- A A Milne

Hahnji, mister, you must be patient. Before you can name that corner, our future must become past.
- Rohinton Mistry

Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
- Earl Monroe

No beating yourself up. That's not allowed. Be patient with yourself. It took you years to form the bad habits of thought that you no longer want. It will take a little
time to form new and better ones. But I promise you this: Even a slight move in this direction will bring you some peace. The more effort you apply to it, the faster you'll find your bliss, but you'll experience rewards immediately.
- Holly Mosier

I tell my brethren in Palestine: be patient and continue your blessed struggle. We did not forget you. We are still healing another wound in the Muslim nation, which is the occupation of our land by the Americans. Your battle and ours are one and the same.
- Mohammed Omar

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.
- Ovid

Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim. (Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.)
- Ovid

One thing at a time,' said the Boy. 'You must be patient. This is a day of hope and wild revenge. Do not interrupt me. I am a courier from another world. I bring you golden words.
Listen!' said the Boy. 'Where I come from there is no more fear. But there is a roaring and a bellowing and a cracking of bones. And sometimes there is silence when, lolling on your thrones, your slaves adore you.
- Mervyn Peake

Sometimes things aren't clear right away. That's where you need to be patient and persevere and see where things lead.
- Mary Pierce

Ben Says: Be great in your life & become as bright as the stars in the sky. But be patient because every star will has it's time too shine.
Timothy Pina
Bullying Ben
- Timothy Pina

I ache to hear her tell me she loves me, but forcing her to put words to how she feels pushes her further into the silence she seems comfortable calling home now. I tell myself to be patient and understanding, but inside there's a longing only those words will fill, and it hurts to ignore it.
- C J Redwine

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
- Rainer Maria Rilke

Hearing loss very often is such a gradual phenomenon that the person is in denial. You really have to be patient with them in getting them to come forward to get help.
- Marion Ross

My trainer Jimmy Tibbs and my promoter Frank Warren told me that I had to be patient and get the jab going.
- Billy Joe Saunders

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
- Robert H Schuller

Be patient. Your skin took a while to deteriorate. Give it some time to reflect a calmer inner state. As one of my friends states on his Facebook profile: The true Losers in Life, are not those who Try and Fail, but those who Fail to Try.
- Jess C Scott

Tania, there is so much still ahead of you. Be patient with life
- Paullina Simons

I felt the Lord telling me just to be patient all year. Whether it happened this year, next, or never, everything was going to be okay.
- Webb Simpson

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.
- Swami Sivananda

What you think and do now builds.
Value this moment.
Be patient.
Smile often.
Love the process of living each minute fully.
Your presence is a source of strength
and an inspiration
to people you spend time with.
Give your greatest gift--
your full attention,
yourself.
- Alexandra Stoddard

In fiction, I searched for my favorite authors, women I have trusted to reassure me than not all teenage guys are total ditwads, that the archetype of the noble cute hero who devotes himself to the girl he loves has not gone the way of the rotary phone. That all I had to do was be myself (smart, hardworking, funny) and be patient and kind and he and I would find each other.
As Bea would say, this why they call it fiction.
- Sarah Strohmeyer

Individual psychotherapy - that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient, modest, and a perceptive listener, rather than a talker and advice-giver.
- Thomas Szasz

There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.
- Chuck Tanner

We decided to either try trades or just go with older players. If you do that and let contracts expire you can be in the lottery for about four or five years and expect your fans to be patient.
- Isaiah Thomas

Forget Not: 1)to be patient with yourself. 2) the difference between good and foolish sacrifices. 3) to be happy NOW. 4) the 'why' of the gospel. 5) the Lord loves you.
- Dieter F Uchtdorf

I would like to use this little flower as a metaphor. The five petals of the little forget-me-not flower prompt me to consider five things we would be wise never to forget....first, forget not to be patient with yourself...second, forget not the difference between a good sacrifice and a foolish sacrifice...third, forget not to be happy now...fourth, forget not the why of the gospel...fifth, forget not that the Lord loves you.
- Dieter F Uchtdorf

The first thing is to be patient, which is probably the hardest thing to do. Don't worry if blokes are whacking you out of the park because you still have the opportunity to get him out next ball, even if it's not the same ball.
- Shane Warne

I'd love to have another film to go on to. I'm in the mood to work. But I have to be patient, you know, to find that particular kind of project. Occasionally I'll write one myself if I can summon up the energy.
- Peter Weir

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