Elizabeth Berg Quotes

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

Why can't we have patience and expect good things to take time?

I can wait for you longer. Because you have arrived.

No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time.

I have a hard time waiting for things to happen.

Instant gratification takes too long.

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

The hardest part of growing up is learning how to wait

Wait and wait. Most people's lives are spent waiting.

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.

If you are patient...and wait long enough...Nothing will happen

All human power is a compound of time and patience.

Waiting is one of the great arts.

Everything comes if a man will only wait.

There is magic in patience, you know.

Tell me, he said, "What is this thing about time? Why is it better to be late than early? People are always saying, we must wait, we must wait. what are they waiting for?" "Well […] I guess people wait in order to make sure of what they feel." "And when you have waited—-has it made you sure?

Everything comes to him who waits -- if he waits till it comes.

Time can but make it easier to be wise / Though now it seems impossible, and so / All that you need is patience.

One must wait till it comes.

The best teachers have showed me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly--we only think it does. The motion of drawing back a bow and sending an arrow straight into a target takes only a split second, but it is a skill many years in the making. So it is with a life, anyone's life.

Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?

Some things are worth the wait.

My biggest weakness is patience, wanting to see things happen too quickly or get changes in place right away. Not having the patience to let things develop.

For he who can wait, everything comes in time.

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.