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Quotes About Patience

Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it.
~ Swedish Proverb
Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.
~ Swedish Proverb
Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
~ Swedish Proverb
Fear less, hope more Whine less, breathe more
~ Swedish Proverb
What breaks in a moment may take years to mend.
~ Swedish Proverb
When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur…. Not tomorrow, not the next day, but eventually a big gain is made. Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That's the only way it happens—and when it happens, it lasts." - John Wooden
~ Swen Nater
Pattern Consistency is a major key to time-management. Search for and discover the best time to do planning, and do your planning at that same time every day. When the priorities receive their own place in the day, each day will have the same pattern. Pattern begets comfort and productivity. Patience An abundance of patience is needed to manage time consistently. Making the change to becoming a good time-manager may be very difficult.
~ Swen Nater
We must cease striving and trust God to provide what He thinks is best and in whatever time He chooses to make it available. But this kind of trusting doesn't come naturally. It's a spiritual crisis of the will in which we must choose to exercise faith.
~ Swindoll Charles R.
If you allow it, [suffering] can be the means by which God brings you His greatest blessings.
~ Swindoll Charles R.
Trent You know I used to wait two days to call anybody, but now it's like everyone in town waits two days. So I think three days is kind of money. What do you think
~ Swingers
You have to plant doubt […] It's like planting a seed that takes time to germinate. It might look like nothing is happening, but then suddenly the doubt will flower into some kind of action […] Patience is what is needed. People need to hear the truth, not just once but again and again. That's what the politics of change is all about, patience and repetition, until the truth sinks in.
~ Sybil Claiborne
If it's worth doing, it's worth doing poorly. (friend who is a priest said regarding prayer)
~ Sybil MacBeth
Writing is the ability to ask yourself questions and wait for the answers.
~ Syd Field
Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.
~ Sydney J. Harris
He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again.
~ Sydney Smith
Take short views, Hope for the best, and Trust in God.
~ Sydney Smith
I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.
~ Sylvester Stallone
The heart ages last.
~ Sylvester Stallone
Often, it is the thought that pain will never end that makes it seem unbearable.
~ Sylvia Boorstein
Don't just do something, sit there!
~ Sylvia Boorstein
It's probably best for me to work off some energy before I get you naked. I'm sure you'd like to be able to walk tomorrow.
~ Sylvia Day
For me, the 'ask' is similar to squeezing or crumbling pastry, but in the next nano-second I am releasing the crumbs back
~ Sylvia Loch
Sept.17 (1780). When we call loudly thro' the speaking-trumpet to Timothy ( the tortoise), he does not seem to regard the noise. Sept.18. Timothy eats heartily. Oct.3. No ring-ouzels seen this autumn yet. Timothy very dull.
~ Sylvia Townsend Warner
What good? None, possibility. One does not await a revolution as one awaits the grocer's van, expecting to be handed packets of sugar and tapioca.
~ Sylvia Townsend Warner