Quotes About Patience

Once you stop rushing through life, you will be amazed how much more life you have time for.

You do not at all understand my manner of life. Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry; because I never undertake any more work than I can go through with perfect calmness of spirit.

One can only see clearly If one is going slowly. Quick motion creates life-blur.

He bites his tongue who speaks in haste.

Come on inner peace — I don't have all day.

Diseases come a horsebacke, and returne on foot.

When an illness kicks you down, stay and relax a while before trying to get back up.

Heartache awaits the next love as a seed awaits the spring.

He who gives when he is asked has waited too long.

Love the earth and sun and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people... re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem...

...the snail trail of history...

A lie is just the truth waiting to be itself.

Hope springs anew from the soil of suffering.

Many an angel, with its needle, toils beneath the snow.

Hope is wingèd — one wing faith-patience the other action-effort: and we must fly with both!

When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you're slamming the door in the face of God.

It is difficult to be good-natured in a hot day. Intense heat destroys even the temper of steel, and why not that of flesh and blood?

Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day.

...there was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

Laundry: Washing — 30 minutes Drying — 60 minutes Putting away — 7 to 10 business days

The wonderful patience of the trail... comes to men who toil hard and suffer sore, and remain sweet of speech and kindly.

At first, this earth, a stage so gloomed with woe You all but sicken at the shifting scenes And yet be patient. Our playwright may show In some filth act what this wild drama means.

Like any craft, writing is mastered by practice and patience, and if one has any "knack" for it at all, that very knack—paradoxically—can explicate everything under the sun but itself.

As Genghis Khan reportedly said, there is no good in anything until it is finished.