Quotes About Patience

Anger is one of the sinners of the soul.

Do nothing hastily but catching of fleas.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy, or with a superior, or a clown, in matter of argument.

Two things a man should never be angry at what he can help, and what he cannot help.

God does not always move us when we desire to be moved, and everything that moves us deeply is not God.

Our prayers are granted as soon as we have prayed, even though the process of fulfilling our requests has not yet begun.

Fortunately the Lord is patient and understanding, and does write straight with our crooked lines.

'Tis a lesson you should heed,Try, try again.If at first you don't succeed,Try, try again.

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfilment of that hope never entirely removes.

Only a man harrowing clodsIn a slow silent walkWith an old horse that stumbles and nodsHalf asleep as they stalk.Only thin smoke without flameFrom the heaps of couch grass:Yet this will go onward the sameThough dynasties pass.Yonder a maid and her wightCome whispering by;War's annals will cloud into nightEre their story die.

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

envisioned them in rocking chairs forty years down

Have no expectations except to be fiercely tempted to your last breath.

Don't be in a hurry about finding your work in the world for yourself—you are not old enough to judge for yourself yet; but just look about you in the place you find yourself in, and try to make things a little better and honester there.

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.

"Go to the d—l!" said the disappointed ghost-hunter. An hour—two—rolled on, and still no spectral visitation... and when the turret-clock sounded at length the hour of three, Ingoldsby, whose patience and grog were alike exhausted, sprang from his chair, saying— "This is all infernal nonsense, my good fellow. Deuce of any ghost shall we see to-night..."

the bad stuff will ultimately turn good if you wait long enough, and the good stuff will turn bad over time.

Let what will be said or done, preserve your sangfroid immovably, and to every obstacle, oppose patience, perseverance, and soothing language.

But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.