Quotes About Patience

To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.

Never hold any one by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.

Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are; but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, 'rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation', a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself.

He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung.

In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak.

Jupiter is slow looking into his notebook, but he always looks.

Any fool can criticize, and many of them do.

If you want the time to pass quickly, just give your note for 90 days.

Time has told me less than I need to know.

If you think too long, you think wrong.

You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk.

We have resolved to endure the unendurable and suffer what is insufferable.

The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.

Experience cold or heat, pleasure or pain. These experiences are fleeting; they come and go. Bear them patiently.

This, too, shall pass.

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

If our education had included training to bear unpleasantness and to let the first shock pass until we could think more calmly, many an unbearable situation would become manageable, and many a nervous illness avoided. There is a proverb expressing this. It says, trouble is a tunnel through which we pass and not a brick wall against which we must break our head.

Come what come may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day.

Time brings all things to pass.

We undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.

Who longest waits most surely wins.