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Quotes About Patience

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.
~ Evelyn Underhill
On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.
~ Evelyn Underhill
Do not suppose from this that your new career is to be perpetually supported by agreeable spiritual contacts, or occupy itself in the mild contemplation of the great world through which you move. True, it is said of the Shepherd that he carries the lambs in his bosom: but the sheep are expected to walk, and put up with the inequalities of the road, the bunts and blunders of the flock. It
~ Evelyn Underhill
We will not have any Dickens today… but tomorrow, and the day after that, and the day after that. Let us read Little Dorrit again.
~ Evelyn Waugh
O God, make me good, but not yet.
~ Evelyn Waugh
Time is my greatest enemy.
~ Evita Peron
We'll get there!
~ Ewan McGregor
His true Penelope was Flaubert,He fished by obstinate isles.
~ Ezra Pound
Your interest is in the bloody loam but what I'm after is the finished product.
~ Ezra Pound
A slave is one who waits for someone else to free him.
~ Ezra Pound
Esclavo es aquel que espera por alguien que venga y lo libere
~ Ezra Pound
you sit tiller " said Kokka " if whenever you move something jangles.
~ Ezra Pound
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
~ Ezra Pound
Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
There are times when you simply have to righteous hang on and outlast the devil.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
Milo remembered an old saying his father used to quote to him when he was a boy: Beware the wrath of a patient man.
~ F. Paul Wilson
Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Forgive those who are ignorant. -Bit-tik
~ F. Sionil Jose
suffering sweetens the reward
~ F.E. Higgins
There are only two ways to live a life, wait for a miracle or become one." http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/list/34980292-faisal-khosa
~ Faisal Khosa
The path we each travel can be very dark, indeed; it can turn unexpectedly, and we can't see around corners. Most of us, I think, pray for more light upon our personal roads—not to see far ahead or to foretell the future, but to illuminate the next step, which is all we can take. No one goes along his road in seven-league boots.
~ Faith Baldwin
I could be patient. I could. If they'd hurry up.
~ Faith Hunter
I love you, Nell, sugar. I love you with no demands. Nothing held back. I love you to the exclusion of all others. I love you now, when you are the most beautiful woman I've ever seen. I loved you when you were a tree. I will love you when you grow gray haired and your leaves are brittle and brown. I want to make love to you. When you happen to be ready. When you know you love me that exact same way.
~ Faith Hunter
I'll do my best, sir." "I'll pretend I didn't hear that. You can't do your best every day, as that would be your average and you'd never have the ability to shine when it's needed the most. Save your best for when it's truly important. The rest of the time, give a good effort but forgive yourself if it's not your best.
~ Faith Hunter