Quotes About Patience

All of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, Before I go to the place from which I shall not return.

And now, Lord, what wait I for?

We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly in to the future; but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.

Today was once the future from which you expected so much in the past.

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.

My head is buried in the sands of tomorrow, while my tail feathers are singed by the hot sun of today.

I have always been waiting for something better-sometimes to see the best I had snatched from me.

Men spend their lives in anticipation, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other-it is our own.... We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

Do today's duty, fight today's temptation; do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see, and could not understand if you saw them.

Today's egg is better than tomorrow's hen.

The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.

The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.

The office of president requires the constitution of an athlete, the patience of a mother, the endurance of an early Christian.

I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.

No Winter lasts forever, no Spring skips its turn. April is a promise that May is bound to keep, and we know it.

Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.

June's too soon, July's too late - for summer.

We must not wish anything other than what happens from moment to moment, all the while, however, exercising ourselves in goodness.

It is better to have a hen tomorrow than an egg today.

He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.