Quotes About Patience

When one person yells the other should listen. When two people yell, there's no communication.

It is often dangerous to rush into battle without pausing for preparation or waiting for recruits.

You will recall that the White Queen said: "The rule is jam tomorrow and jam yesterday but never jam today." Most of us are like that—stewing about yesterday's jam and worrying about tomorrow's jam—instead of spreading today's jam thick on our bread right now.

I learned thirty years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.

One grain of sand at a time. One task at a time.

John Wanamaker, fundador de las tiendas que llevan su nombre, confesó una vez: hace treinta años. he aprendido que es una tontería regañar a los demás. Bastante tengo con vencer mis propias limitaciones sin irritarme por el hecho de que Dios no ha creído conveniente distribuir por igual el don de la inteligencia.

Many persons call a doctor when all they want is an audience.

Half the nation savagely condemned these incompetent generals, but Lincoln, "with malice toward none, with charity for all," held his peace. One of his favorite quotations was "Judge not, that ye be not judged.

Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall," wrote Robert Louis Stevenson. "Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.

Self-evident, isn't it? You don't have to study for four years in Harvard to discover that. Yet I know and you know department store owners who will rent expensive space, buy their goods economically, dress their windows appealingly, spend thousands of dollars in advertising and then hire clerks who haven't the sense to be good listeners—clerks who interrupt customers, contradict them, irritate them, and all but drive them from the store.

El mismo Dios, señor, no se propone juzgar al hombre hasta el fin de sus días

When we start in the morning, there are hundreds of tasks which we feel that we must accomplish that day, but if we do not take them one at a time and let them pass through the day slowly and evenly, as do the grains of sand passing through the narrow neck of the hourglass, then we are bound to break our own physical or mental structure.

Finally, the wind calmed down and gave up, and then the sun came out from behind the clouds and smiled kindly on the old man. Presently, he mopped his brow and pulled off his coat. The sun then told the wind that gentleness and friendliness were always stronger than fury and force. p160

Patience, Humility, Manners, and Taste, common schools and kindergartens, industrial and technical schools, literature and tolerance,—all these spring from knowledge and culture, the children of the university. So must men and nations build, not otherwise, not upside down.

Have you noticed that the narrower the view the more you can see? For the first time I understand how old ladies can sit on their porches for years.

The second I left my old life's cowpath, I discovered I didn't need a drink. It became possible to stand still in the dark under the oaks, hands at my sides, and watch and wait.

On those days or mornings when you feel worst, when you think everything is hopeless, that nothing will happen--sometimes the best things happen.

There is never any hurry on the creative plane; and there is no lack of opportunity.

Go on in the certain way, and if you do not receive that thing, you will receive something so much better that you will see that the seeming failure was really a great success.

You're just catching me during one of my fallow periods, that's all. One of my compost years. I'm expecting a creative leap pretty soon now.

Faith doesn't give warranties.

Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference.

The secret is to just settle for the shape your life takes... Instead of... always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.

I ask you for the time of day, you tell me how to build a clock!