Quotes About Patience

Failure cannot cope with persistence.

Most of us go through life as failures, because we are waiting for the time to be right to start doing something worthwhile. Do not wait. The time will never be just right.

Ralph Waldo Emerson had this truth in mind when he said (in his essay on Compensation), "If you serve an ungrateful master, serve him the more. Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is withholden, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer

WHEN RICHES BEGIN TO COME THEY COME SO QUICKLY, IN SUCH GREAT ABUNDANCE, THAT ONE WONDERS WHERE THEY HAVE BEEN HIDING DURING ALL THOSE LEAN YEARS.

Todo o curso das coisas vai nos ensinar a fé. Só precisamos obedecer. Existe orientação para cada um de nós, e, escutando com humildade, ouviremos a palavra certa".

Do not be in a hurry to get to the great things. Doing great things will not make you great, but becoming great will certainly lead you to the doing of great things.

Life is an everlasting question-mark! That which we want most is always in the embryonic distance of the future. Our power to acquire is always a decade or so behind our power to DESIRE! And, if we catch up with the thing we want we no longer want it!

I discovered, from the analysis of over twenty-five thousand people, that men who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of forty, and more often they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of fifty

Success comes by inches, not by leaps or bounds. Success is the pushing forward each day by hard work.

I cannot tell you now; When the wind's drive and whirl Blow me along no longer, And the wind's a whisper at last - Maybe I'll tell you then some other time.

It's going to come out all right—do you know? The sun, the birds, the grass—they know. They get along—and we'll get along. Some days will be rainy and you will sit waiting And the letter you wait for won't come, 5 And I will sit watching the sky tear off gray and gray And the letter I wait for won't come.

It's going to come out all right—do you know? The sun, the birds, the grass—they know. They get along—and we'll get along. Some days will be rainy and you will sit waiting And the letter you wait for won't come, And I will sit watching the sky tear off gray and gray And the letter I wait for won't come.

I HAVE ransacked the encyclopedias And slid my fingers among topics and titles Looking for you. And the answer comes slow. There seems to be no answer. Old-fashioned Requited Love I shall ask the next banana peddler the who and the why of it. Or—the iceman with his iron tongs gripping a clear cube in summer sunlight—maybe he will know.

I will be back soon if not sooner and when I come back I will return.

Hour by hour the caissons reach down to the rock of the earth and hold the building to a turning planet.

The wind carves sand into shapes Endless the fresh designs, Wind and ice patient beyond telling. Ice can tip mountains over, Ice the giant beyond measure. And the sun governs valley lights, Transforms hats into shoes and back again Before we are through any long looking.

God does not hurry over things; time is his, not mine. And I, little creature, a man, have been called to be transformed into God by sharing his life. And what transforms me is the charity which he pours into my heart.

If one is to succeed in anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.

If a warrior is to succeed in anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.

You must wait patiently, knowing that you're waiting, and knowing what you're waiting for. That is the warrior's way. And if it is a matter of fulfilling your promise then you must be aware that you are fulfilling it. Then a time will come when your waiting will be over and you will no longer have to honor your promise.

He explained that the leaf had fallen over and over from that same tree so I would stop trying to understand.

To truly hate is an art one learns with time.

Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.

That day was turning out to be longer than The Brothers Karamazov.