Quotes About Patience

And in time, and by being a good woman, and a patient woman, she would have won a good and patient man.

While waiting for her to phone me at school I'd feel seconds bursting inside me and leaving clouds. That won't come again—it can't. I'll never have that with anyone else. I'll never even come close.

He was really kind of magnificent. Sometimes he'd get punched or interrupted or outshouted while he was saying his sentence. And, well, he'd just wait until the interruption was over. Then, rather than starting his sentence again, he just went on as if nothing had happened, picking up from the precise syllable where he had been forced to stop. It drove people nuts.

Family lore has it that they entertained each other very well, the pragmatist and the man who was almost too gullible to live. One had more patience, and the other had more resolve, and they were about even when it came to daring, so their love established possibilities and impossibilities without keeping score.

If I truly believe in Him, I'll trust Him to desire for me that which is for my highest good, and to have planned for its fulfillment.

Can you thank Me for trusting you with this (difficult) experience, even if you never know the reason why?

It also occurred to me that wishing away half your life in anticipation of retirement (albeit an awesome one) was verging on the medieval.

Those who are certain of the outcome can afford to wait, and wait without anxiety.

God, teach me to be patient, teach me to go slow, Teach me how to wait on You when my way I do not know. Teach me sweet forbearance when things do not go right So I remain unruffled when others grow uptight. Teach me how to quiet my racing, rising heart So I might hear the answer You are trying to impart. Teach me to let go, dear God, and pray undisturbed until My heart is filled with inner peace and I learn to know your will.

Endurance is the free companion of Sorrow, and Patience her master.

So, Elizabeth will have to ascend the throne without me. Teeth are all I am going to see crowned for the next couple of years.

One of my guideposts is that it's often a mistake to try too hard too early," Kathy shared. "So I sit back for a time, learn about the culture and what value I can provide, and watch things develop. I think that served me well with Europeans because I'm not perceived as self-promoting or too aggressive (the ugly American). People play into that stereotype because they try to impress too quickly.

The moral of the story: don't react, especially when you are hungry and tired! Process the feedback at a time when you can take an honest look at what is being said.

Clouds rise up to heaven: The image of WAITING. Thus the superior man eats and drinks, is joyous and of good cheer.

Thanatos, der alles wusste, stieg in Erwartung des Kommenden die Niederenslinger Hügel hinauf zum Plateau, suchte einen Baumstrunk, setzte sich und wartete. Er trug einen schwarzen Aktenkoffer bei sich, der alle Geduld der Welt enthielt.

I bet on a horse at ten-to-one. It didn't come in until half-past five.

In a state of war, one is always waiting. We have become waiting-machines. For the moment it is food we are waiting for. Then it will be the post. But each in its turn. When we have done with dinner we will think about the letters. After that, we shall set ourselves to wait for something else.

At the touch of mankind, things wear away with heartbreaking slowness.

On tâche à courir plus vite que le temps, quand il est si simple d'attendre qu'il vienne de lui-même se mettre à vos pieds, comme un chien, avec votre destin tout cuit dans sa bonne gueule.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Words and phrases grew only slowly

The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us.