Spike Lee Quotes

All good things arrive unto them that wait – and don’t die in the meantime

You kick around long enough, and good things can happen.

To Thetis, Long overdue, I know, but every often the things we most desire come only after much patience and struggle. That is a human truth, I think. Even Peleus knew that. -Seth

You have to sit by the side of a river a very long time before a roast duck will fly into your mouth.

All good things to those who wait.

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

Hee that hath patience hath fatt thrushes for a farthing.

It is hard to wait and press and pray, and hear no voice, but stay till God answers.

Hang there like fruit, my soul, Till the tree die!

We shall not grow weary of waiting upon God if we remember how long and how graciously He once waited for us.

Time changes everything, but with patience we can keep our desires relatively constant. If we can just hang on long enough, time will eventually create for us the conditions in which we can succeed.

Your patience may have long to wait,Whether in little things or great,But all good luck, you soon will learn,Must come to those who nobly earn.Who hunts the hay-field overWill find the four-leaved clover.

Sometimes great stuff comes quickly and sometimes it doesn't and you've got to dig in for the long haul, don't loose heart, and wait for something to come along. Which is something you learn the more you do it, that if it isn't coming straight away just hang in there and something will come.

Your patience will be rewarded.

When hope makes friends With patience, Hope will be able To live indefinitely.

...in their millenial and long-lived patience they knew quite well how, in a hundred years, or a thousand years' time, or else, perhaps, tomorrow, in an hour's time, for it was all a gamble, a million to one chance, but all the same there was a chance that if they kept on shaking their chains, one day, some day, the clasps upon the shackles would part.

Patience is the art of hoping.

The very important thing you should have is patience.

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.

Everything comes in time to those who can wait.

The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.

The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards.

Patience pays off.

If you're patient and you wait long enough, something will usually happen and it'll usually be something you don't like.

Be willing to wait longer for you goals to bear fruit than you had anticipated.