Quotes About Patience

The dumb fox knows that the less she criticizes, the better. Which is why she doesn't nag. Instead, she maneuvers.

Your time with him is telling. The nice girl sits in a chair after a week of knowing the guy, bored out of her mind as he does something that interests him. He may be watching sports on TV, cleaning his fishing gear, strumming his guitar, or working on his car. She is miserable but doesn't say a peep. Instead, she tries to make the best of it and twiddles her thumbs politely, just so she can be in his company.

There's nothing more prized to a man than something he had to wait for, work for, or strugle a little bit to get.

Patience is an overrated virtue. It's much more fun to have what you want now—especially since there is no guarantee that a longer wait will produce better results.

You need not leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need not even listen, simply wait, just learn to become quiet, and still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked.

But in creative conversations, in conversations in which people get to really know each other, you usually have to tolerate a bit of boredom.

You're putting it in God's hands. Last time I checked, He was even better than you at making sure things turn out the way they're supposed to.

Taking it day by day, seeing how things go? Last I heard planning only gives God a good laugh.

Persistence can only break the hearts of those we love and of ourselves as well, not to mention the purse of society that should be spent for the care of others who have not yet lived their allotted time.

Hope can still exist even when rescue is impossible.

"You can make it all right if you will only be satisfied to remain small," I told myself. I had to keep saying it over and over to myself. "Be little. Don't try to be big. Work under the guns. Be a little worm in the fair apple of life."

Wait and wait. Most people's lives are spent waiting.

Most of us live our lives like toads, sitting perfectly still, under a plantain leaf. We are waiting for a fly to come our way. When it comes out darts the tongue. We nab it. That is all. We eat it.

It take time to understand things that happen in life. Life unfolds slowly in the mind.

If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.

There are two things that cannot be achieved in life unless you close your eyes a little bit. And that's love and peace. If you want perfection you won't obtain either of them.

stand bustle or hustle, but she could only operate when things were

We will all "come forth as gold" (Job 23:10) if we understand that God is sovereign and knows what is best, even when we cannot understand what is happening at the time. He asks us to trust Him and to know that He cares for us even when we can't track Him.

People with positive attitudes have certain personality traits that are easy to recognise. They are caring, confident, patient and humble. They have high expectations of themselves and others. They expect positive outcomes.

it is far better to marry the right person at the wrong time than the wrong person at the right time.

When we wear the okesa, we are also farming. This is the meaning of "robe of virtuous field" (fukuden-e). This body and mind is the field we work. It is not a field of fortune from which we can expect to receive blessings without practice. We have to cultivate our life.

become angry. Weeding is one of the main jobs of Buddhist priests in Japanese temples, especially in the summer, and the weeds grow so quickly!

There is nothing in the world, I tell you, so maddening as a person who doesn't answer when you abuse him. You shout and you scold, you are ready to burst a gut, and he stands there and smiles....

A bank hates to rush —it takes its time.