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Quotes About Patience

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
When it's hard and you are doubtful, give more.
~ Francis Chan
It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Tomorrow never comes.
~ Rajneesh
I never really lost a game in my career, sometimes I just ran out of time.
~ Bobby Layne
Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal.
~ Mario Andretti
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
~ Horace
Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.
~ James Anthony Froude
What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.
~ Ovid
Better hope deferred than none.
~ Samuel Beckett
This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
~ Fred Astaire
The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second, which comes with a sort of mastery.
~ Janet Erskine Stuart
Even though you may not understand how God works, you know he does.
~ Max Lucado
Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let us not despair of the smallness of our accomplishments.
~ John Calvin
There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.
~ J. G. Holland
Do not figure out big plans at first, but, begin slowly, feel your ground and proceed up and up.
~ Swami Vivekananda
If you're always in a hurry, always trying to get ahead of the other guy, or someone else's performance is what motivates you, then that person is in control of you.
~ Wayne Dyer
A hitter's impatience is the pitcher's biggest advantage.
~ Pete Rose
We must guard against allowing anger to drag us into sin.
~ Joyce Meyer
I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.
~ Mickey Mantle
I'm not really a career person; I'm a gardener, basically.
~ John Lennon
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast
~ Thomas A. Edison
There may be more to learn from climbing the same mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred different mountains.
~ Richard R. Nelson