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You strike me as one who is patient, so you will know that things don’t always happen in the sequence you want them to

Youth and patience are foreign to one another.

You’ve got to have confidence in the very thing that makes you unique – then wait for the world to catch up

You turn friends away before you discover they were good after all; you give up on your dreams before you realize you were very close to your success all that while. Be patient; don’t rush things!

You want to work spells,' Ogion said presently, striding along. 'You've drawn too much water from that well. Wait. Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine times patience. What is that herb by the path?' 'Strawflower.' 'And that?' 'I don't know.' 'Fourfoil, they call it.' Ogion had halted, the coppershod foot of his staff near the little weed, so Ged looked closely at the plant, and plucked a dry seedpod from it, and finally asked, since Ogion said nothing more, 'What is its use, Master?' 'None I know of.' Ged kept the seedpod a while as they went on, then tossed it away. 'When you know the fourfoil in all its seasons root and leaf and flower, by sight and scent and seed, then you may learn its true name, knowing its being: which is more than its use. What, after all, is the use of you? or of myself? Is Gont Mountain useful, or the Open Sea?' Ogion went on a half mile or so, and said at last, 'To hear, one must be silent.

You were patient, but I worried that your very patience tempted Kevin to try it.

A classic is like a hidden treasure. Its core is buried under so many layers of varnish that it can be reached only by patience and infiltration.

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don't have the patience to learn.

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.

All things come round to him who will but wait.

All is love...All is love. With love comes understanding. With understanding comes patience. And then time stops. And everything is now.

All things come to him who waits

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

All things come to him who waits - provided he knows what he is waiting for.

All things come to him who mates.

All things pass... Patience attains all it strives for.

A moment of patience in a moment of anger prevents a thousand moments of regret.

American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet. We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.

As any gardener will tell you, the cycles of nature require patience...Even a fast-growing vegetable like a radish requires time.

And you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one's patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days.

Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday, to construct a respectable haiku.

And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust.

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.

A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?

as the years go on a sense of deep patience comes over one; one seems to know the virtue of ripeness, and the danger of rushing events.

A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.

A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience.

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

A weed is a plant we've found no use for yet.

Avoiding the temptation to sin and being patient upon that, is greater than being patient whilst being afflicted with trials.

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

Be assured that every man's success is in proportion to his average ability. The meadow flowers spring and bloom where the watersannually deposit their slime, not where they reach in some freshet only. A man is not his hope, nor his despair, nor yet his past deed. We know not yet what we have done, still less what we are doing. Wait till evening, and other parts of our day's work will shine than we had thought at noon, and we shall discover the real purport of our toil. As when the farmer has reached the end of the furrow and looks back, he can tell best where the pressed earth shines most.

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

Being empowered includes developing the powerful qualities that lead human beings to cultivate wellness and healing. And those are the same qualities that enhance all relationships on earth and reduce stress (which seems to be the largest precursor to disease)-gentle ness, calmness, patience, humility, compassion, and gratitude.

Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off.

By diligence and patience, the mouse bit in two the cable.

By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.

Endurance is the free companion of Sorrow, and Patience her master.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

Ever since I can remember, I've always wanted to tell stories, but I never had the patience to sit down at a typewriter and write short stories or anything like that. I started writing songs as a way of communicating ideas the best way I could.

Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it. Obviously, it's a challenge - but if you're not taking the bull by the horns, I have no patience for you. You're just taking up space.

Every relationship has a spiritual purpose that helps us grow and become stronger. Sometimes, our most challenging relationships bring the greatest personal blessings. From them we learn about forgiveness, patience, and other virtues.

Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.