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To 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

...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

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

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

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

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

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

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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