Quotes About Patience

Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.

AH I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

To many fame comes too late.

A farmer is always going to be rich next year.

Feast, and your halls are crowded; Fast, and the world goes by.

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learnt.

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin.

To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.

For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.

Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.

Most of my major disappointments have turned out to be blessings in disguise. So whenever anything bad does happen to me, I kind of sit back and feel, well, if I give this enough time, it'll turn out that this was good, so I shan't worry about it too much.

Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.

Friends are like melons. Shall I tell you why? To find one good, you must a hundred try.

A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.

There was a wise man in the East whose constant prayer was that he might see today with the eyes of tomorrow.

Genius is only great patience.

Why always, "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say, "not yet"?

This one makes a net, this one stands and wishes. Would you like to make a bet which one gets the fishes?

If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.

Sometimes we look so intently toward the pinnacle that we stumble over the steps leading to it. Development begins just where you are.