Douglas William Jerrold Quotes

I think we ought to take the world as it is and not as we would like to have it.

I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress.

Waiting is a big part of life. We don't like to admit that, especially our generation; we don't like to wait on stuff. We want stuff immediately.

I've always been slow but I'm even slower now. I'm more into the waiting, or I guess I'm more patient about the waiting.

A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

What more can we require? Nothing but time.

Patience is the art of hoping.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

I'm patient.

What happens tomorrow is going to happen tomorrow.

The very important thing you should have is patience.

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.

Patience is the best medicine.

Everything comes in time to those who can wait.

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

There's nothing wrong with things taking time.

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.