Quotes About Patience

No matter how big and tough a problem may be, get rid of confusion by taking one little step towards solution. Do something. Then try again. At the worst, so long as you don't do it the same way twice, you will eventually use up all the wrong ways of doing it and thus the next try will be the right one.

Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, and all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures.

That which comes into the world to disturb nothing deserves neither respect nor patience.

If you strike a thorn or rose, Keep a-goin! If it hails or if it snows, Keep a-goin! 'Tain't no use to sit and whine 'Cause the fish ain't on your line; Bait your hook an' keep on tryin'. Keep a-goin!

He who is the most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in the performance of it.

He that fights and runs away Will live to fight another day.

Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).

A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.

It is not every question that deserves an answer.

The net of the sleeper catches fish.

In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.

His shortcoming is his long staying.

God made me on a morning when he had nothing else to do.

A thick skin is a gift from God.

As old as the itch.

When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it is best to let him run.

'Are you lost daddy?' I asked tenderly. 'Shut up,' he explained.

After the rain cometh the fair weather.

Expect nothing and life will be velvet.

You can't move so fast that you try to change [a situation] faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remaining brotherless.

Hope for a miracle. But don't depend on one.

We must like what we have when we don't have what we like.