#patience

My worst quality is impatience. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#quality #worst

Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age. ↗

— Elliot Paul

#beautiful #makes #middle #middle age #patience

Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#chastity #could #delayed #dull #experience

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#fortune #knocks #misfortune #more #much

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct. ↗

— Phaedrus

#bear #conduct #everyone #his #ought

I think I have more patience now than I did in the past. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#i #i think #in the past #more #now

Beauty, unlike the rest of the gifts handed out at birth, does not require dedication, patience and hard work to pay off. But it's also the only gift that does not keep on giving. ↗

— Paulina Porizkova

#beauty #birth #dedication #does #gift

I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience. ↗

— Tyrone Power

#done #i #lot #monument #patience

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury. ↗

— Francis Quarles

#beware #comes #coming #fury #him

David’s mouth dripped open slowly. He stood with his heels dug into my carpet, a dashed hope, a broken dream. No amount of money could top the priceless look that gathered on his face like an unmade bed. His eyebrows crumpled and furrowed like disheveled sheets. His lips curled into an acidic smirk. Confusion and shock collided in the cornea of his dilated pupils. He was a B.B. King song, personified. His entire body sang the blues. ↗

— Brandi L. Bates

#love #patience #dreams