Quotes About Patience

Patience is the greatest of virtues in a woodsman.

Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.

For life is short and the art of writing books is very, very long.

Long lead times are required for effective action.

I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much – in just standing and staring.

Have you ever been going somewhere with a crowd and you're certain it's the wrong road and you tell them, but they won't listen, so you just have to plod along in what you know is the wrong direction till somebody more important gets the same idea?

You can spit until you're dry, but you'll never make a lake

Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

The little bit you and me might change the world," Malloy smiled, "it wouldnt show up until a hundred years after we were dead. We'd never see it." "But it'd be there.

if you stay still for long enough, the universe whispers its secrets to you.

society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they will never see'.

Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.

A lot of people get impatient with the pace of change.

You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it's working on; then you can write a novel.

The difficult we can do immediately; the impossible will take a little longer.

The reason God responds to persistence is because prayer is changing the one who prays. As we pray, God is making us spiritually fit to receive what He is already willing to do.

Don't get a bad attitude like they did back in the wilderness, or you're going to be joining them.

To complain is to say in effect; "God, You blew it! You had a chance to meet my expectations, but You couldn't handle it! Nice try, God, close—but not close enough." So complaining definitely injures you and the Lord.

Yet those who wait for the LORD will gain new strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles, they will run and not get tired.

For those who love God all things work together for good.

When we wait on the Lord, we invite Him to root out the dissonance in a divided heart and bring to us the integrity of full surrender to His will. In that we experience His strength.

When we see the faults of others, we are to forgive and forbear in humility.

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