Quotes About Patience

There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.

Habit is habit, and not to be thrown out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

It is well to lie fallow for a while.

Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy; but, my friend, these I reckon will give you a good lift.

Build a little fence of trust Around today; Fill the space with loving work, And therein stay.

Practice easing your way along. Don't get het up or in a dither. Do your best; take it as it comes. You can handle anything if you think you can. Just keep your cool and your sense of humor.

Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp.

Happiness comes most to persons who seek it least, and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought, it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you, and not you overtake it.

Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her nose all the time.

Behold, we count them happy which endure.

Who will present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.

Happiness comes fleetingly now and then to those who have learned to do without it, and to them only.

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job.

Haste makes waste.

Take time for all things.

Haste is of the Devil.

We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.

What the heart knows today, the head will understand tomorrow.

How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police - it's gone.

Listen long enough and the person will generally come up with an adequate solution.

When the historian, Charles A. Beard was asked about the lessons from history, he said there were four: 1. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. 2. Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. 3. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small. 4. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.