Quotes About Patience

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

trying to cook over the fire, plugging in the lamp before attempting to flip it on, or cranking up the engine before trying to put the car into gear. We

I sought the Lord, and He answered me. (Ps. 34:4)

Patience is how love diffuses something negative; kindness is how love initiates something positive.

When you choose to be patient, you respond in a positive way to a negative situation. You are slow to anger. You choose to have a long fuse instead of a quick temper. Rather than being restless and demanding, love helps you settle down and begin extending mercy to those around you. Patience brings an internal calm during an external storm.

But in addition to spiritual matters, providing for your family's emotional needs must also remain a priority. One reason to avoid constantly coming home drained and depleted from too many hours of work is so you're not as likely to be touchy, impatient, and irritable around your family. Part of their emotional well-being depends on the pleasantness of your conversation, your ability to give them your full attention, and your quickness to be understanding and forgiving.

If patience is how love reacts in order to minimize a negative circumstance, kidness is how love acts to maximize a positive circumstance. Patience avoids a problem; kidness creates a blessing.

Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off.

Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.

Better to wait actively than passively.

The only way to prove his willingness to wait would be to wait.

Most High God, let your servant see but a little ahead. Or, if not give me the hope that drives out fear

The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is today.

He who waits for the sword to fall upon his neck will surely lose his head.

It does not do to hurry the archer, it makes him miss.

He mistook convalescence for indolence and resented it

It is not easy to keep the flame of hope burning in the cold, empty heart of Sollen. The Season of Snows is not the time to make bright plans for the future. One slow foot in front of the other—that was all the future I knew. Just one more step, and then one more . . . I cared about nothing else.

Do not borrow tomorrow's troubles today

Minds are like flowers, they only open when the time is right.

Manifesting is a lot like making a cake. The things needed are supplied by you, the mixing is done by your mind and the baking is done in the oven of the universe.

When we give up the chase, we give up our wishing.

Always have an air of expectancy.

The problem with procrastination is it's been around since the beginning of time it seems.