Quotes About Patience

He held himself back for a while, but not for long.

By late February 2009 Jobs had secured a place on the Tennessee list (as well as the one in California), and the nervous waiting began. He was declining rapidly by the first week in March, and the waiting time was projected to be twenty-one days. "It was dreadful," Powell recalled. "It didn't look like we would make it in time." Every day became more excruciating. He moved up to third on the

Don't fight over divvying up the proceeds until you finish robbing the stagecoach.

slow and steady diligence is the true way to wealth.

Most of human life is defined by waiting

What's that got to do with a few gray hairs?" Angelo wanted to know. "Girl see one or two and she thinks maybe the man done aged enough to calm down, make somethin' outta himself. She willin' to let him look so maybe she could see what his prospects are like. That way a man like me might get a great night or a lifetime of pot roasts, fat babies, and halfhearted regrets.

He once told me that they'd have to wake him for his execution because "the Mouse ain't gonna miss his rest.

America was changing at a snail's pace in a high wind, but until that gastropod mollusk reached its destination I had a .45 in my pocket and eyes on all four corners at once.

Leadership," said Nimitz, "consists of picking good men and helping them do their best for you. The attributes of loyalty, discipline and devotion to duty on the part of subordinates must be matched by patience, tolerance and understanding on the part of superiors."24

With a combination of nimble counsel, exasperating ego, studied patience, and street-fighter tactics, William D. Leahy, Ernest J. King, Chester W. Nimitz, and William F. Halsey, Jr., built the modern United States Navy and won World War II on the seas. Each

Scots wear short patience and long daggers.

It is better to enjoy the good which God sends thee, than to be impertinently curious how it comes.

It will be just like Duncan Mac-Girdie's mare,' said Evan, 'if your ladyships please, he wanted to use her by degrees to live without meat, and just as he had put her on a straw a day the poor thing died!

Which of them would sit six hours on a wet hillside to hear a godly sermon?

Your lordship's servant has a sensible, natural, pretty idea of military matters; somewhat irregular, though, and smells a little too much of selling the bear's skin before he has hunted him.

Chapter XX Happy's the wooing That's not long a-doing

I will not slip my dog before the game's a-foot.—But

sufficient for the day was the evil thereof.

The seductive love of narrative, when we ourselves are the heroes of the events which we tell, often disregards the attention due to the time and patience of the audience, and the best and wisest have yielded to its fascination.

Cynicism results from unrealistic expectations. If we expect an argument to be a knock-down proof that convinces everyone immediately on first hearing, then we are bound to be disappointed. Almost no arguments work like that. If we trim our expectations to make them more realistic, and if we are patient enough to wait for effects that take a while instead of demanding immediate capitulation, then we will find that reasons and arguments can have some influence.

I've come to realize that the only way to deal with life's problems is to walk close to the Lord.

I believe miracles are to be prayed for, not wished for.

Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. PSALM 37:4

Things don't always go the way we want. I've come to realize that some things just aren't meant to be.