Quotes About Patience

Stoically, Le Gentil packed up his instruments and set off for the nearest port, but en route he contracted dysentery and was laid up for nearly a year.

You can understand why it took nine hundred years to build—and that was with German workers. In Britain they would still be digging the foundations.

I have long known that it is part of God's plan for me to spend a little time with each of the most stupid people on earth

There are three things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again.

The thing about Ayers Rock is that by the time you finally get there you are already a little sick of it.

can take up to ten million years to clean an ocean—but if you are not in a hurry it is marvellously efficient. Perhaps

All that is required of you is a willingness to trudge.

I didn't ask for twenty quarter-pound cheeseburgers, I asked for four quarter-pound cheeseburgers five times." "Same thing," he said. "It's not the same thing at all. You can't be this stupid." Two

It's easy to make bricks, but making houses requires far more than throwing a pile of bricks in the air.

can never understand these people who rush to buy new gadgets; surely they must see that they are going to look like idiots in about a year when the manufacturers come up with tiny lightweight versions of the same thing at half the price. Like the people who paid $200 for the first pocket calculators and then a few months later they were being given away at gas stations. Or the people who bought the first color televisions.

In one well-known case, a woman named Martha Robinson was for years beaten and physically misused by a cruel and unstable husband. Eventually, he infected her with gonorrhea and then poisoned her almost to the point of death by slipping antivenereal powders into her food without her knowledge. Her health and spirit broken, she sued for divorce. The judge listened carefully to the arguments, then dismissed the case and sent Mrs. Robinson home with instructions to try to be more patient.

Follow the trend lines, not the headlines.

He turns to her, his lethal blue eyes reduced to a squint. "Kathy." "Lester. Be brief." "I have the votes in the House," he says. "The House is wrapped up like a bow. Is that brief enough?" One of the things she has learned over the years is the art of not responding too quickly. It buys you time and makes you seem more deliberative.

Parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.

Most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a day - and overestimate what they can accomplish in a year.

Leadership is a journey, not a destination. It is a marathon, not a sprint. It is a process, not an outcome. (quoting John Donahoe)

Debt comes from wanting more than God's current provision for your life and arranging other ways to get it.

forgiveness in God's time is the only door to healing.

Americans today confuse freedom with not being asked to sacrifice. The fact that you can't have everything you want exactly when you want it has somehow become un-American.

New Rule: You can't force the ATM to do something it doesn't want to do. Excuse me, lady in front of me at the Citibank ATM, but you've been standing there punching buttons for ten minutes--what are you trying to do, write a novel on it? You hear those beeping noises? That's the ATM saying, Stop it, you're hurting me. A chicken would have gotten forty bucks out of that thing by now just by pecking the buttons randomly.

Instead of using the expression "It is what it is," just shut up.

Sloth is the thief of time. The character defect of putting off actions "until things get better" is one of the most destructive detours we can make. Delays never make problems "go away;" they only make success harder to attain.

I cannot open a flower with a sledgehammer—

195 For Guidance Father of light, Give us wisdom to know You, Intelligence to understand You, Courage to seek You, Patience to wait for You, Eyes to see You, A heart to meditate on You, And a life to proclaim You. by St. Benedict