Quotes About Patience

A chief does not hurry.

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

When you're at the beginning, don't obsess about the middle, because the middle is going to look different once you get there.

Everything can look like a failure in the middle." A similar sentiment is expressed by marriage therapist Michele Weiner-Davis, who says that "real change, the kind that sticks, is often three steps forward and two steps back." If failure is a necessary part of change, then the way people understand failure is critical.

At this "insight" stage, it's easy to get depressed, because insight doesn't always strike immediately.

Pain now for a payoff later.

So, yes, a long journey starts with a single step, but a single step doesn't guarantee the long journey. How do you keep those steps coming?

Grit is not synonymous with hard work. It involves a certain single-mindedness. An ungritty prison inmate will mount a daring new escape attempt every month, but a gritty prison inmate will tunnel his way out one spoonful of concrete at a time. Grit

Love sticks around even when it has a lot to put up with.

If you simplify your life, quit chasing the wind, and be quiet before Him, He'll show up.

Hopeless situations are never hopeless to God.

Tomorrow is another day. I've got plenty of things to worry about right now.

Danger will come upon us when it will. We can't stop it. We can only try to be prepared. There's no point in looking ahead to that danger and suffering its effects even before it comes to us.

Forgive me, Sister, I said silently, you who are the unsung heroine of this tale, the one who has the tougher role: to wait and to worry.

And remember this: whenever possible, don't fight openly with your enemy. Let them think they've won—and then strike when least expected.

Open yourself to the sight, and it will show you what you need to know. But never attempt to bend it to your will. Never pry into a particular life that has been brought to your care. That is to break trust.

Some things can't be spoken. The body alone knows them. It holds them patiently, in its silent, intelligent cells, until you are ready to see.

In the temple, I sit on the cool floor next to Grandfather, beneath the stern benevolence of the goddess's glance. Grandfather is clad in only a traditional silk dhoti--no fancy modern clothes for him. That's one of the things I admire about him, how he is always unapologetically, uncompromisingly himself. His spine is erect and impatient; white hairs blaze across his chest.

All through the history of the world, the virtuous have suffered for causes unseen. Learn from Nal and Damayanti to bear your misfortunes bravely. Like theirs, your evil times, too, will come to an end.

At what point does forbearance cease to be a virtue and become a weakness?)

A wise person allows herself to be used when it suits her purpose. She pretends weakness, then waits for the right moment to take control.

Wait for a man to avenge your honour and you'll wait forever.

I only ask that we think carefully before we act. Let us not, in our anger, do something we will regret later. It is easy to start a bonfire, hard to put it out.

days slow as cattle grazing in a parched summer field.