Quotes About Patience

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Some people think that as soon as you plant a tree, it must bear fruit. We must allow it to grow a bit.

Be more humble than a blade of grass, more tolerant than a tree, always offering respect onto others and never expecting any in return

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.

The bonsai is not you working on the tree; you have to have the tree work on you

The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree?

I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.

A tree with strong roots can withstand the most violent storm, but the tree can't grow roots just as the storm appears on the horizon.

A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.

The stronger the winds, the deeper the roots, and the longer the winds, the more beautiful the tree.

The tree on the mountain takes whatever the weather brings. If it has any choice at all, it is in putting down roots as deeply as possible."---Each New Day

Look upon yourself as a tree planted beside the water, which bears its fruit in due season; the more it is shaken by the wind, the deeper it strikes its roots into the ground.

Playing against a defensive opponent is just as bad as making love to a tree.

I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.

It is a greater act of faith to plant a bulb than to plant a tree.

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.

Break open the cherry tree: where are the blossoms? Just wait for spring time to see how they bloom.

The weakness of most men they do not know how to become a stone or tree.

Desire may be compared to a minute seed. It is like a big banyan tree growing out of a seed, which is no bigger than a dot.

Everybody who's anybody longs to be a tree.

Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.