Quotes About Patience

Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do.

You cried when He took away your drop of water, not knowing He'd saved for you, the sea.

How long will you keep pounding on an open door Begging for someone to open it?

He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Patience is of two kinds: patience over what pains you, and patience against what you covet.

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

Fear not; calm will follow the storm, and perhaps soon.

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

Like a twisted olive tree in its 500th year, giving then its finest fruit, is man. How can he give forth wisdom until he has been crushed and turned in the Hand of God.

We should take as a maxim never to be surprised at current difficulties, no more than at a passing breeze, because with a little patience we shall see them disappear. Time changes everything.

The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money.

Spread out your petition before God, and then say, "Thy will, not mine, be done." The sweetest lesson I have learned in God's school is to let the Lord choose for me.

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

For those who have an intense urge for Spirit and wisdom, it sits near them, waiting.

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

Silence is the maturation of wisdom.

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

Knowledge, wisdom, and understanding don't come out of the microwave. You got to keep moving forward because the evil doesn't sleep.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

The road through grief is a rocky one. Traveling along it requires courage, patience, wisdom, and hope.

Little by little, one travels far