Quotes About Patience

Don't wait for your "ship to come in," and feel angry and cheated when it doesn't. Get going with something small.

He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg.

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

Who waits until the wind shall silent keep Will never find the ready hour to sow.

Wishing does not make a poor man rich.

One of the sources of pride in being a human being is the ability to bear present frustrations in the interests of longer purposes.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

Never try to catch two frogs with one hand.

If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.

The greyhound that starts many hares kills none.

He who hunts two hares leaves one and loses the other.

Life has ... taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.

God pays, but not weekly wages.

God will provide - if only God would provide until he provides.

Give God time.

God does not pay weekly, but he pays at the end.

God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts; who best Bear His mild yoke, they serve Him best; His state Is kingly; thousands at His bidding speed And post o'er land and ocean without rest - They also serve who only stand and wait.

He loves, He hopes, He waits. Our Lord prefers to wait Himself for the sinner for years rather than keep us waiting an instant.

For the rest of my life I'm going to trust that God is always at work in all things, and give Him thanks long before my simplest prayers are answered.

"You are accepted!" ... accepted by that which is greater than you and the name of which you do not know. Do not ask the name now, perhaps you will know it later. Do not try to do anything, perhaps later you will do much. Do not seek for anything, do not perform anything, do not intend anything. Simply accept the fact that you are accepted.

Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well.

Good things are not done in a hurry.

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet.