Quotes About Patience

"Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know"

He marries best who puts it off until it is too late.

People do not like to have their word doubted or to have their love constantly tested. When such a situation continues for a long period of time, the partner becomes angry. No matter what he/she does, it is not enough.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.

In your anger do not sin": Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry (Ephesians 4:26).

Bushes may not be eloquent explaining emotion, but George HW Bush's mother knew enough to be in position with her children were ready to talk. She waited up not just to ensure safety but to make the most of the moment of excited emotions. The next morning, they would congeal into polite, one-word answers.

I believe my mother was smart enough to know that in the night, you are willing to tell all. If she waited until the next day, she knew she'd get one-syllable answers.

We can live in God or we can wait for God

We cannot lose control over something we have no control over

I've never cared for humming verse But what to do inside a jail? I'll hum some verse to pass long days I'll hum and wait till freedom comes.

Speak but little, and that little only when thy own purposes require it. Heaven has given thee two ears but only one tongue, which means: listen to two things, but be not the first to propose one.

The rule is that when we know the answer, we do not ask the question.

It is essential that a child's life not be ruled by the adult's need for efficiency. Efficiency is the enemy of infancy. It is too costly in terms of the child's emotional economy. It drains the child's resources, prevents growth, stifles interests, and may lead to emotional meltdowns. Children need opportunities to experiment, struggle, and learn without being rushed or insulted. Anxiety

We would like to believe that patience is a virtue. But is it? Not if it demands that we pretend to be calm when we feel agitated, that we not act the way we feel, that our behavior, instead of reflecting, hides our true feelings.

Do not insult the mother alligator until after you have crossed the river.

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air...but only for one second without hope.

My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.

All the queens of my acquaintance have children, some three, some seven, and some as many as twelve; and my queen has not one. I feel ill-used." So he made up his mind to be cross with his wife about it. But she bore it all like a good patient queen as she was.

Everyone's a believer when things are going fine. The real faith is when one becomes patient with tribulations.

We live in a fast-food culture, in which we are led to believe that we need to have everything now; it is a culture that causes people to lose a sense of a future worth waiting for.

The Prophet also said that the affair of believers is all good. Even if something unpleasant occurs, there is good in it.