Quotes About Patience

Though I don't believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there and I am prepared to expect wonders.

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.

We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.

Patience. Kindness. Generosity. Humility. Courtesy. Unselfishness. Good temper. Guilelessness. Sincerity. All these things make up the Supreme Gift, and are there in the soul of whoever wishes to be in the world and close to God.

but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise. Mrs

Your ignorance, brother, returned she, as the great Milton says, almost subdues my patience.[*] D—n Milton! answered the squire: if he had the impudence to say so to my face, I'd lend him a douse, thof he was never so great a man.

Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair.

men of true wisdom and goodness are contented to take persons and things as they are, without complaining of their imperfections, or attempting to amend them.

Time, however, the best physician of the mind

One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.

It was the truth, vivid and monstrous, that all the while he had waited the wait was itself his portion.

I'll watch with you.

Besides, he was a philosopher; he smoked a good many cigars over his disappointment, and in the fulness of time he got used to it.

You were to suffer your fate. That was not necessarily to know it.

He himself was almost never bored, and there was no man with whom it would have been a greater mistake to suppose that silence meant displeasure.

I don't think I can attempt to say now what it was. Some day—perhaps.

Everything he wanted was comprised moreover in a single boon--the common unattainable art of taking things as they came. He appeared to himself to have given his best years to an active appreciation of the way they didn't come; but perhaps--as they would seemingly here be things quite other--this long ache might at last drop to rest.

Few of the men she saw seemed worth an expenditure of imagination, and it made her smile to think that one of them should present himself as an incentive to hope and a reward of patience.

For Isabel, however, there was of course as of yet no thought of getting out, but only of advancing.

You were reserved for my future

Ah, things are always different from what they might be," said the old man. "If you wait for them to change you'll never do anything.

fast ones, if you're impatient." She was silent a little after which she brought out: "Oh I guess it'll be fast enough!

She liked him — she had liked him all the while; now anything might happen! She was ready — she had been ready always, waiting for him to speak. If he had not spoken she would have waited for ever; but when the word came she dropped like the peach from the shaken tree.

Oh he'll come back!" I said, glancing at his place.  The repast continued and when it was finished I screwed my chair round to leave the table.  Mrs. Peck performed the same movement and we quitted the saloon