Quotes About Patience

The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.

My eleven year old daughter mopes around the house all day waiting for her breasts to grow.

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

The bathtub was invented in 1850 and the telephone in 1875. In other words, if you had been living in 1850, you could have sat in the bathtub for 25 years without having to answer the phone.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.

Take each day as it comes, don't overthink it.

It takes five years to establish a discipleship flow and have it bear fruit within the church. Many pastors and parishioners simply don't possess the spiritual stomach for such a journey.

Delayed gratification is important first and foremost in training children.

Occasionally, we go through times when we feel God is not speaking to us. While that may be so, most of the time He has simply changed His language, and He expects us to adjust with Him.

One of the toughest lessons a Christian can learn is how to trust and praise God in the uncertain time between a promise and its fulfillment.

God never allows a storm without first providing the tools to calm the storm.

Keep in mind that if you do not give up the right to understand, you will not receive the peace that passes understanding.

Remember, it's the pace that kills, never the distance.

Ask God and be ready to listen.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.

But knowing that moose had returned to Vermont in his lifetime pleased him enormously. It was the idea that things repaired themselves, that if you backed off a little and didn't ask too much of the world then it would meet you halfway.

TV makes it so easy to postpone living for another half hour.

Some people have a hard time walking and chewing gum at the same time. Not me I cant ever get the gum out of the wrapper!

When I have a bird in my hand, I don't start looking for the bird in the bush

Faith and patience be damned! You have just got to make up Your mind whose side You are on. You must come to my assistance, so that I may dispatch the entire German Army as a birthday present to your Prince of Peace. "Sir, I have never been an unreasonable man; I am not going to ask You to do the impossible.

the senselessness of indefinitely delayed gratification.

Peace in Our Hearts Our Creator, show us the way of patience, tolerance, And kindness. Grant us power in our love, Strength in our humility, Clarity in our thinking, Purity in our zeal, Sincerity in our purpose, Kindness in our laughter, Value in our gratitude, Compassion in our friendships, And Your peace in our hearts at all times.

Watching him, I learned that you take the broadcasting job one day at a time. You don't worry that the team is 20 games out. First place? Last place? It doesn't matter. You just hope for a good game that day. You don't rip people.