Quotes About Patience

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to succeed before he is ready.

The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone.

I don't think it's meant for man to know everything at once.

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the echo.

She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.

Procrastination is illogical from every viewpoint. It is like the man who wanted to cross the stream, so he sat on the bank to wait for all the water to run by.

Buy a man a beer, and he wastes an hour. Teach a man to brew, and he wastes a lifetime.

If a woman hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky.

If I am an angry man, it is my duty to pray for charity, which suffereth long and is kind.

Men are ready to suffer anything from others or from heaven itself, provided that, when it comes to words, they are untouched.

My dad and I hunted and fished together. How could I get angry at this man who took the time to be with me?

You can be sure you are a man of God if you suffer injustice gladly and in silence.

I asked my old man if I could go ice-skating on the lake. He told me, "Wait til it gets warmer."

The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.

No life can surpass that of a man who quietly continues to serve God in the place where providence has placed him.

Find a man with both feet firmly on the ground and you've found a man about to make a difficult putt.

Men ought not to faint because men ought to pray.

Man, I tell you, this is worth waiting 16 years for!

In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

One of these days I will be an old man in a rocking chair on a porch. Wouldn't it be nice to have my whole life there to read and kind of re-live it.

A stroke of a man knocking a thistle top with a walking stick

Time, tide, and comets waited for no man.

What should we be doing in the meantime?" "All of the things you will look back on fondly later when you have not been able to do them for a long time.