Quotes About Patience

The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.

If you cannot immediately change your undesirable situation, you can choose the practice of appreciation.

Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.

Too much aggression and work will move what you desire further away.

Want ever so gently. Invite your desires to you like you call a cat. Any aggressive move toward your goals will chase them away.

Life is a practice.

Every shortcut has a price usually greater than the reward.

The master action, to move forward is a form of inaction; being still and quiet.

The master tools of success are invitation, patience, time, gentleness, cooperation, and surrender.

Wanting anything too desperately is a form of aggression and violence, which will always be met with resistance.

I have found in life that everything, no matter how bad, comes to an end.

It is better just to get on with the business of living and minding your own business and maybe, if God likes the way you do things, he may just let you flower for a day or a night. But don't go pestering and begging and telling him all your stupid little sins, that way you will spoil his day.

As a rider, you must slowly and methodically show your horse what is appropriate. You also have to discourage what's inappropriate, not by making the inappropriate impossible, but by making it difficult so that the horse himself chooses appropriate behavior. You can't choose it for him; you can only make it difficult for him to make the wrong choices. If, however, you make it impossible for him to make the wrong choices, you're making war.

They say nerves heal real slowly. Lots of things about us heal real slowly.

The road may bend out of sight at times, but I know what lies ahead: the faraway horses.

When working with a horse, particularly a troubled horse, you'll notice that he will spend a good portion of his time avoiding contact, physical and mental.

Where you end up your ride on a horse is so important. It's a little bit like when you were young and you were dating—that last two minutes of the date can be a real deal breaker. With these horses it's the same thing…You got to quit on a good note.

I just invent. Then I wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.

The greatest prayer is patience

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

A jug fills drop by drop The tongue is like a sharp knife kills without drawing blood

When the student is ready, the master appears.

Never be the best in town. Just be the best 'til the best come around.