Quotes About Patience

One minute of patience, ten years of peace

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Milk the cow, but do not pull off the udder.

A word out of season may mar a whole lifetime.

If a guy truly likes you, but for personal reasons he needs to take things slow, he will let you know that immediately. He won't keep you guessing, because he'll want to make sure you don't get frustrated and go away.

If you can find him, then he can find you. If he wants to find you, he will.

Maybe you've got the patience to work out some complicated, long-term, ironic way to get back at the people who've wronged you, but that's you.

No fear can stand up to hunger, no patience can wear it out, disgust simply does not exist where hunger is; and as to superstition, beliefs, and what you may call principles, they are less than chaff in a breeze.   I

One thing we can easily predict is that anything worth accomplishing will take time, and the bigger our goals are, the more time they will take.

Endure with a tenacious hope that cannot be found elsewhere.

Sooner or later. It had better be sooner. Later is like the horizon; it recedes as you approach.

Don't keep a girl guessing too long, or she'll find the answer somewhere else.

5Let all that I am wait quietly before God, for my hope is in him.

Never forget that what may look like God's insensitivity is nothing of the sort, but rather an invitation to draw closer to Him through persistent praying in faith.

This doesn't make sense to me right now, but it's all going to make sense in eternity. It will produce something in eternity that would not have been there otherwise. So in faith I'm going to

That day Haji Ali taught me the most important lesson I've ever learned in my life. We Americans think you have to accomplish everything quickly. We're the country of thirty-minute power lunches and two-minute football drills...Haji Ali taught me to share three cups of tea, to slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects. He taught me that I had more to learn from the people I work with than I could ever hope to teach them.

Haji Ali taught me to...slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects.

Haji Ali taught me the most important lesson I've ever learned in my life...We Americans think you have to accomplish everything quickly. We're the country of thirty-minute power lunches and two-minute football drills. Haji Ali taught me to share three cups of tea, to slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects.

Trust in Allah, but tie up your camel.' Sign in Skardu

As for those forwards who remain on the ice for too long, we'll pass the mic to venerable blogger Tyler Dellow: "Being on the ice after a minute is sort of like being in a bar after 1:00 am—there's no guarantee that something bad will happen, it's possible that something good will happen, but the odds are slanted heavily in favor of something bad.

Keep walking, though there's no place to get to. Don't try to see through the distances. That's not for human beings. Move within, but don't move the way fear makes you move. — Rumi

Patience means awaiting God's time, without doubting God's love.

The next forty-eight hours passed tediously and painfully, like a jagged kidney stone.

I know how to handle stress better than that. Things have been good long enough that I forgot what it's like to be graceful when they're not.