Quotes About Patience

To expect life to be tailored to our specifications is to invite frustration.

The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it.

Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition.

'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear; heaven were not heaven if we knew what it were.

Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting.

What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.

Since luck's a nine days' wonder, wait their end.

Fortune is like the market, where many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

Job feels the rod, Yet blesses God.

Never tell your resolution beforehand.

The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine.

Vengeance is a dish that should be eaten cold.

Not to be provoked is best; but if moved, never correct till the fume is spent; for every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.

Rome was not built in a day.

When people say: she's got everything, I've only one answer: I haven't had tomorrow.

Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.

Blessed is he who expects no gratitude, for he shall not be disappointed.

Don't try to teach a whole course in one lesson.

It is only fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.

Waiting is one of the great arts.