Quotes About Patience

Age brings wisdom to some men, and to others chess.

Boredom is a blessing when it leads you to wisdom. And boredom is a curse when it leads you to frustration and depression.

He who hesitates is sometimes wise.

While you'll feel compelled to charge forward it's often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you and what you truly seek.

Neither death nor wisdom has a full stop. There are only commas-no destinations, only waiting rooms.

The Dutch and the English, former competitors for world dominance, taught me the wisdom of waiting as well as withholding.

I pray daily for wisdom on how to serve my kids without words.

Wisdom doesn't teach fools for long.

There is another kind of wisdom, the wisdom of following - the wisdom of not taking the lead with your ego.

Books tap the wisdom of our species -- the greatest minds, the best teachers -- from all over the world and from all our history. And they're patient.

With whose imperfections will you bear, and what insult are you capable of enduring, if a thoughtless word from your own Superior is unbearable?

Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are out of worms.

The scarcity of years does not necessitate lack of wisdom.

We usually overestimate what we think we can accomplish in one year-but we grossly underestimate what we can accomplish in a decade.

stick to truth and we shall succeed, may be slowly, but surely.

As the tortoise can draw in his legs, and if you strike him, not one foot comes out

Often people enter into things they have not the means to accomplish, with the result that they cheat others to attain their own ends. Then there is in all things the time factor to be taken into consideration; what at one time might be a failure, would perhaps at another time be a very great success. The

The majority of us cannot see beyond a few years, just as some animals cannot see beyond a few steps. Just a little narrow circle — that is our world. We have not the patience to look beyond, and thus become immoral and wicked. This is our weakness, our powerlessness.

The success sometimes may come immediately, but we must be ready to wait patiently even for what may look like an infinite length of time. The student who sets out with such a spirit of perseverance will surely find success and realisation at last.

if you want to do a great or a good work, do not trouble to think what the result will be.

flying from work is never the way to find peace.

First hear, then understand, and then, leaving all distractions, shut your minds to outside influences, and devote yourselves to developing the truth within you. (I. 177) PATIENCE

Forbearance is the highest expression of freedom.

Falling away ... when obtained . Some days or weeks when you are practicing, the mind will be calm and easily concentrated, and you will find yourself progressing fast. All of a sudden the progress will stop one day, and you will find yourself, as it were, stranded. Persevere. All progress proceeds by such rise and fall.