Quotes About Patience

Long is the road from conception to completion.

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.

If you have arthritis, calmly say, I was always complaining about the ruts in the road until I realized that the ruts are the road.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few more upon it.

There are some people that you cannot change, you must either swallow them whole or leave them alone.

If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it is best to let him run.

You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it.

When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil, while fretting and fuming only increase your own torments.

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

Trouble will come soon enough, and when he does come receive him as pleasantly as possible ... the more amiably you greet him, the sooner he will go away.

The grass must bend when the wind blows across it.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change!

If you cast away one cross, you will certainly find another, and perhaps a heavier.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Boys, this is only a game. But it's like life in that you will be dealt some bad hands. Take each hand, good or bad, and don't whine and complain, but play it out. If you're men enough to do that, God will help and you will come out well.

Wood may remain ten years in the water, but it will never become a crocodile.

Working in the theatre has a lot in common with unemployment.

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.

The man who has done nothing but wait for his ship to come in has already missed the boat.

Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.

That man is blest who does his best and leaves the rest; do not worry.

God alone can finish.

Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season.