Quotes About Patience

Inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic energy striving, but it comes to us slowly and quietly and all the time.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains.

He laughs best who laughs last.

The lazy man gets round the sun as quickly as the busy one.

Sometimes I wish life had a fast-forward button.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Life is a jig saw puzzle with most of the pieces missing.

Lead, kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom, Lead Thou me on! The night is dark, and I am far from home - Lead Thou me on! Keep Thou my feet; I do not ask to see The distant scene, - one step enough for me.

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

Burdens become light when cheerfully borne.

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 life.

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck, even while waiting for it.

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a man, my son!

Pains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. That's what makes a marriage last - more than passion or even sex.

Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.

I believe that the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification.

It is very difficult to slow down. The practice of medicine is like the heart muscle's contraction - it's all or none.

Nature, time, and patience are the three great physicians.

Too much talk will include errors.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct, is quite a man.

To live long, it is necessary to live slowly.

There never was night that had no morn.

The weariest night, the longest day, sooner or later must perforce come to an end.