Quotes About Patience

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom

Trees acquire strength by growing slowly and flexing with the pressures of nature. Us too.

The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs, "The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies." While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, Crying to the moo-oo-oon, "If only, If only.

I will be waiting by candlelight in our tree house of the mind.

All the trees are losing their leaves, and not one of them is worried.

I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.

O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as time steals onwards, while none perceives Slowly she clothes herself with leaves.

The fruit falls off the tree. You don't shake it off before it's ready to fall.

The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.

The strength of a tree, the old ones say, comes not from growing thicker in the good years when there is water, but from staying alive in the bad, dry times.

However long it stays in the river the tree-trunk will never turn into a crocodile.

If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.

A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms grows from a downy tip; A terrace nine stories high rises from level earth; A journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath one's feet.

Wealth, like a tree, grows from a tiny seed.

Water the fruit trees and don't water the thorns.

No one can look at a pine tree in winter without knowing that spring will come again in due time.

A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor a person perfected without trials. Someone is enjoying shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.