Quotes About Patience

Embrace the higher truth that everything comes to pass exactly as it should. Find peace and wisdom by accepting what is.

Seldom, if ever, does wisdom come, shall we punish it if it comes late?

My mother used to say, 'He who angers you, conquers you!' But my mother was a saint.

You don't have to have perfect wisdom to get very rich - just a bit better than average over a long period of time.

Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.

Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late.

Tis long ere time can mitigate your grief; To wisdom fly, she quickly brings relief.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Whoever travels without a guide, needs two hundred years for a two-day journey.

Time perfects all living beings as well as kills them; it alone is awake when all others are asleep. Time is insurmountable.

When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me, speaking words of wisdom "Let it be".

If we still advise we shall never do.

I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

O Allah! If I cannot always understand Your wisdom in what You decree, please let me at least have the insight to accept it and be content with it.

Act quickly, think slowly.

The toughest test of good judgment is to know when to withhold your better judgment.

Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.

If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?

Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation. I never yet talked to the man who wanted to save time who could tell me what he was going to do with the time he saved.

He who will lose a present good for one in expectation hath some wit, but a small store of wisdom.

Be still, then, thou uneasy mortal; know that God is unerringly wise; and be assured that, amidst the greatest multiplicity of beings, He does not overlook thee.

It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.