Quotes about Patience

AND SINCE we're talking about nostalgia, I beg you to have a little patience with what follows because I can't separate the subject of Chile from my own life. My past is composed of passions, surprises, successes, and losses: it isn't easy to relate in two or three sentences.

Years sneak by quickly, on tip-toe, scoffing and suddenly they give us a fright in the mirror or smack us on the back. Every minute is precious and we can't waste it on misunderstanding, impatience, jealousy, pettiness, or the other silly stuff that soils relationships. In truth this formula can be applied at any age because it's always the case that our days are limited.

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few more upon it.

If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it.

If you cast away one cross, you will certainly find another, and perhaps a heavier.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Whate'er we leave to God, God does and blesses us.

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

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, refrains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.