Quotes About Patience

Simply having children does not make mothers.

Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.

Expectation is the mother of all frustration.

I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.

I was always an observer, even as a child. I could be satisfied to sit in a car for 3 hours and just look at the street go by while my mother went shopping.

God know that a mother need fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul.

In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation.

Have you not love enough to bear with me, when that rash humor which my mother gave me makes me forgetful.

What instruction the baby brings to the mother!

Woo her not till thou hast seen her mother, for a score of years worketh wonders.

My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or complaint, gained him at the close of his life to Christ.

I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.

I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home.

Mothers will be fishing kids out of obscure cubby-holes for years!

When my mother left me waiting for her, [she] established in me the habit of waiting and expectation which makes any present moment most significant for what it does not contain.

One day treats us like a hireling nurse, another like a mother.

Never argue with a mother who's scolding her child.

If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing.

Physical fitness can neither be acquired by wishful thinking nor by outright purchase.

Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

I don't know what my future holds, but I do know who holds my future.

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.