Quotes About Patience

I am tired of waiting on life, it was so slow to arrive and so quick to leave.

There is a place in the heart that will never be filled a space. And even during the best moments and the greatest times we will know it We will know it more that ever. There is a place in the heart that will never be filled and we will wait and wait in that place.

a man can go 70 years without a piece of ass but he can die in a week without a bowel movement.

we only pretend to live while we wait on something

the hearts can be removed without killing the tree, but this takes more time).

There's time enough, but none to spare.

It is necessary to look forward to a harvest, however distant that may be, when some fruit will be reaped, some good effected.

love of science—unbounded patience in long reflecting over any subject—industry in observing and collecting facts—and a fair share of invention as well as of common sense. With such moderate abilities as I possess, it is truly surprising that I should have influenced to a considerable extent the belief of scientific men on some important points.

Soon found there is no way to rid yourself of a disagreeable man's conversation more effectually than by not allowing him an opportunity of making a remark.

There was a redemption of some kind, he believed, in such complete fulfillment of a desire so long deferred.

But one day leads to another, and so on. No way around it. It's that merciless thing that time does.

V has finally learned that sitting calm within herself and waiting is often the best choice. And even when it's not, those around you become uncomfortable because they think you are wise.

and all the ministers of the various types of local Baptists had declined to participate in retribution for Monroe's failure to believe in a God with severe limitations on His patience and mercy.

He had long since decided there was little usefulness in speculating much on what a day will bring. It led a person to the equal errors of being either dreadful or hopeful. Neither, in his experience, served to ease your mind.

The main thing, Ruby said, was not to get ahead of yourself. Go at a rhythm that could be sustained on and on. Do just as much as you could do and still be able to get up and do again tomorrow. No more, and no less.

sitting calm within herself and waiting is often the best choice.

But Luce takes the attitude, when you start fretting the day-by- day you lose track of the long view. And the long view is, they need to learn to speak for themselves and do the best they can. For now, if they bag their own lunch and it's pickles and prunes and they say the words, all you do is put both thumbs up and say, Good job.

You have to get your mind right, and always look way down the road, not at your feet.

for when had the true faith been other than persecuted and trampled under foot? If one came to think of it with eyes purified from the tears of carnal impatience, what was it but a glorious martyrdom? Blest

is it not written, that those who make haste to be rich, pierce themselves through with many sorrows?

Why should we long for the next world, before we are fit even for this one?

and I was reminded....of the everday boredom of a life in espionage. One is always waiting for someone who does not show up,for something that does not happen.

You don't wait and wait for the perfect person at the perfect time.

Neglecting to ask God's counsel, neglecting to seek God's timing, you step in to *handle* things. And by and by, you've got a mess on your hands.