Quotes About Patience

We gain nothing in this life apart from endurance, which involves two things—patience and time. Endurance means that I am willing to stay at my post— where God has placed me—until He tells me to move forward. It also means that no matter how hard life may become, I will follow wherever He leads.

We remain in our present circumstances until we receive further instructions and His intervention.

When we hear His promises, we think, That is in the future. But the Father has already seen the end and is reporting the reality to us—He has achieved all that He said He would do (Isa. 55:10–11). Time just has to catch up.

If God has positioned us in a certain place, we must leave all the details to Him.

Writing doesn't come real easy to me. I couldn't write a novel in a year. It wouldn't be readable. I don't let an editor even look at it until the second year, because it would just scare them. I just have to trust that all these scraps and dead-ends will find a way.

The outsiders, with their own objectives, provided rifles, ammunition, communications equipment, military vehicles and combat advice to young men who lacked the discipline and patience for a long-term, non-violent and democratic struggle.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

He that is uneasy at every little pain is never without some ache.

The hour of idleness is the hour of temptation.

The only thing wrong with doing nothing is that you never know when you're finished.

In trying to get our own way, we should remember that kisses are sweeter than whine.

In Westphalia, Germany, little girls set a lady-bird on the end of their forefinger and ask it in rhyme when they will be married; in one year? two years? three years? etc.; and they grow very impatient if the insect lets them count too high before it flies away.

Conversation is the slowest form of human communication.

Oh, I can't bother to write. If it's too long to telegraph I just let it go.

Never write a letter while you are angry.

The post-office has a great charm at one period of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.

And my experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to want the second, when that is out.

It is while you are patiently toiling at little tasks that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn upon you.

Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.

A fine layer of dust must settle on literature before it's truly complete.

I need neither future nor past, but to learn to take today not too fast.

If you're always racing to the next moment, what happens to the one you're in?

If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you don't wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes.

People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting.