Quotes About Patience

Depart from the highway, and transplant thyself in some enclosed ground; for it is hard for a tree that stands by the wayside to keep her fruit till it be ripe.

Stand still. The trees ahead and bush beside you are not lost.

Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.

Nature makes trees put down deep roots before having them bear fruit, and even this is done gradually.

Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

You can't have the fruits without the roots.

The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

His grandfather had often told him that he tried too hard to move trees when a wiser man would walk around them.

Trees do not force their sap, nor does the flower push its bloom.

In golf I am one under; one under a tree, one under a rock, and one under a bush.

To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.

Plant no other tree before the vine.

Take love easy, as the leaves grow on the trees.

It ought to come like the leaves to the trees, or it better not come at all.

The tree does not die, it waits.

I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think that the same is true of human beings.

Even trees do not die without a groan.

Like a tree, a woman can't carry the weight of two seasons simultaneously. In the violent struggle of trying, she'll miss every bit of joy each season promises to bring.

Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.

I worry about kids today not having time to build a tree house or ride a bike or go fishing. I worry that life is getting faster and faster.

You woke up on the wrong side of the oak tree, didn't you? (Acheron)

Come, Boy, sit down. Sit down and rest." And the boy did. And the tree was happy.

Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky. [Ger., Es ist dafur gesorgt, dass die Baume nicht in den Himmel wachsen.]