Quotes About Patience

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.

Anger makes us strong, Blind and impatient, And it leads us wrong; The strength is quickly lost; We feel the error long.

It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out.

You may fire when you are ready, Gridley.

The "love of the Spirit" (Rom. 15:30) may well be translated, "love created by the Spirit" (see Col. 1:8).58 This love manifests itself primarily in its relationship to other people; it is patient, kind, good, trustworthy, gentle, and self-disciplined (Gal. 5:22-23).

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

But Fielding lived when the days were longer (for time, like money, is measured by our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.

What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

No matter how big and tough a problem may be, get rid of confusion by taking one little step towards solution. Do something. Then try again. At the worst, so long as you don't do it the same way twice, you will eventually use up all the wrong ways of doing it and thus the next try will be the right one.

People who have nothing much in mind for next week speak instead about the next century or millennium.

Stephen spared her a look that was part patience and part condescension. "I'm a Chinese American, so of course I spend all my free time in a secret monastery learning kung fu and practicing spiritual cultivation. Because one day a demon king shall descend onto Houston and only my Ninth Level Thunder Fist Punch will stand in his way.

That's just perfect. I hung up and crossed my arms over my chest. When your butt is permanently attached to a chair, the only thing you can do is sit and hope to look professional.

Tony looked at me with the long-suffering patience of an adult child who knew an educational lecture was coming and there was no way to escape. "One

I was thinking, we might just stay here," Rose said. "We can wait for you." " 'Dear Declan, where is your bride?' 'Oh, I left her outside, Your Grace.' " Declan shook his head. "I don't think so.

To Mother no was simply a yes that hadn't had a chance to hear her out.

He'd have to stalk her, he decided. Carefully and patiently.

Cookies aren't gonna cut it. Do you know any lion hunters who bait their traps with cookies?

It's been over a year since I've had sex.

Time may have taught him patience with less agile minds, but it could hardly teach him how to escape boredom in their presence.

Why do I get a feeling that you've already figured it out and are now feeding me bread crumbs of data to see how fast I get there?" "Because I am." He probably shouldn't have said that. She leaned forward. "Kinsman Baena, you try my patience.

Tony looked at me with the long-suffering patience of an adult child who knew an educational lecture was coming and there was no way to escape.