Quotes About Patience

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.

Whate'er we leave to God, God does and blesses us.

But I trusted in thee, O Lord; I said, Thou art my God. My times are in thy hand.

Do not show your wounded finger, for everything will knock up against it.

The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keeps us going.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

I have learned in the great University of Hard Knocks a philosophy that no woman who has had an easy life ever acquires. I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light.

You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.

Never give advice unless asked.

Be still, sad heart, and cease repining, Behind the clouds the sun is shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall, - Some days must be dark and dreary.

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in his hands Who sayeth "a whole I plant, Youth shows but half; Trust God; see all nor be afraid."

Here's a new day. 0 Pendulum move slowly!

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of 'not going'!

What we fear comes to pass more speedily than what we hope.

When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise and the night be gone? And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.

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

I believe in love, but I don't sit around waiting for it.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

We learn from experience. A man never wakes up his second baby just to see it smile.

Luck affects everything. Let your hook be always cast. In the stream where you least expect it, there will be fish.

If a book is worth reading at all, it is worth reading more than once. Suspense is the lowest of excitants, designed to take your breath away when the brain and heart crave to linger in nobler enjoyment. Suspense drags you on; appreciation causes you to linger.

Ordinary people know little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read. I have been eighty years at it, and have not reached my goal.