Quotes About Patience

We pray when there's nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.

Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible.

I really, deeply believe that dreams do come true. Often, they might not come when you want them. They come in their own time.

Unexpected wonders happen, not on schedule, or when you expect or want them to happen, but if you keep hanging around, they do happen.

I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me.

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

Character isn't developed when we get what we want. Character is developed when we don't get what we want.

Please understand 1 thing, if u want something all you have to do is think it into existence. It may manifest immediately, it may take time.

Love is doing something you don't want to do for someone you don't particularly like at that moment.

You don't always get the dog you want, but you get the dog that you need.

I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.

Often times God wants us to sit before Him in quietness. He doesn't want us to do all the talking. As Is. 30:15 says "In quiet and confidence will be your strength."

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Comfort is everything. You start doing something and you want it to be perfect right away, but most babies are born ugly and then they shake it out and you get beautiful toddlers.

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

Everybody wants to be winners - you have to trust that God has a greater plan for this even when you can't see it.

You can't always get what you want.

It is important to remember that great things have no fear of time. We've got to let go of the idea that what we want to manifest has to be done on our time schedule.

Patience is important, and also, if you don't want to do it, don't do it. But if you do, do. That's a general rule in how I live my life.

God is good whether or not His choices seem right to us, whether or not we feel it, whether or not it seems true, and whether or not He gives us everything that we want.

What the Lord wants is that you shall go about the business to which He sets you, not asking for an easy post, nor grumbling at a hard one.

Why should I practice running slow? I already know how to run slow. I want to learn to run fast.

If one wants to get a boat ride, one must be near the river.

You have to accept the storms and the rainy days and the things in life that you sometimes don't want to face.