Quotes About Patience

Perhaps wisdom is simply a matter of waiting, and healing a question of time. And anything good you've ever been given is yours forever.

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.

Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting.

Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike.

There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.

Hurry ruins saints as well as artists.

A tree, freshly rooted, may be pulled up by one man on his own. Give it time, and it will not be moved, even with a crane

Swallow what's bitter in the cup and move on.

At the end of the day, anybody who thinks there's a reward for nothing, ends up losing.

Wisdom can't prevent the storm.

All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

The cuckoos remain silent for a long time (for several seasons) until they are able to sing sweetly (in the Spring) so as to give joy to all.

The days are long, but the years are short.

The chief aim of wisdom is to enable one to bear with the stupidity of the ignorant.

To avail yourself of His certain wisdom, ask of Him whatever questions you have. But do not entreat Him, for that will never be necessary.

Owls are wise. They are careful and patient. Wisdom precludes boldness. That is why owls make poor heroes.

Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

Wisdom is worried for being slow in its speech and expeditious in its actions.

We are in hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs; the Lord hath the leisure of conscious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait.

Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.

If there is any danger in the present weather, in the name of God, Monsieur, wait until spring

…but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.

In the mountains of wisdom no climbing is in vain.