Quotes About Patience

The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.

A man that is well ordered in his soul needeth little the unkind demeanor of worldly people nor yet their proud behavior.

Never love unless you can bear with all the faults of man!

Never spend anything before thou have it; for borrowing is the canker and death of every man's estate.

What can a man do to move along in some kind of grace through his days and years?

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; It is its own reward. Everything else is in god's hands. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

Maturity is the slowness in which a man believes.

All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.

I'm just getting settled as a responsible man - but if you split the elephant into little mouthfuls it will be fine.

God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought.

A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.

As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.

I have never given up on men easily.

The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.

There was always more in the world than men could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace.

The man who seeks revenge digs two graves.

I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.

The man who wins is the man who hangs on just five minutes longer after everyone else has quit.

No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.

Every great mind seeks to labor for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good.

Conquer the angry man by love.

Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure.

So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.

I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.