Quotes About Patience

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Great loves too must be endured.

Until then, have great expectations. Keep believing you dreams will come true. And remember, when life throws you a pit... plant a cherry tree.

When life throws you a pit, plant a cherry tree.

From 'A Bowl Fallen From the Roof' Be quiet now and wait. It may be that the ocean one, the one we desire so to move into and become, desires us out here on land a little longer, going our sundry ways to the shore. -Rumi

Little by little a person reaches forty and fifty and sixty, and feels more complete. God could've thrown full blown prophets flying through the cosmos in an instant.

Be loyal to your daily practice. Keep working. And keep knocking on the door. As you'll remember, it is said in one of Rumi's most pithy moments that the door we're knocking on opens from the inside.

Rest assured that long patience and jealously concealed sorrows have shaped, refined, and hardened that woman who makes people exclaim: "She's made of steel!" She's simply "made of woman," and that's sufficient.

Soyez sûrs qu'une longue patience, que des chagrins jalousement cachés ont formé, affiné, durci cette femme dont on s'écrie 'elle est en acier !' Elle est 'en femme', simplement, et cela suffit

Do not think, as you read this, that I am painting my own portrait. Be patient, it is only my model.

You can be certain that long patience, and griefs jealously hidden have tempered and sharpened and toughened this woman till everyone cries 'She's made of steel!' No, she is merely made of woman.

Faith is believing that the outcome will be what it should be, no matter what it is.

At what age did I start to think that where I was going was more important than where I already was? When was it that I began to believe that the most important thing about what I was doing was getting it over with? Knowing how to live is not something we have to teach children. Knowing how to live is something we have to be careful not to take away from them.

All things in the fulness of time

Very soon he'll be well enough to roll about in mud, eat worms, and walk aimlessly around Nam Poo Fountain again.' 'I'm sure he doesn't see it as aimless. We all have different goals. His are achievable.

Defensive driving' meant we travelled so slowly we were often overtaken by maimed war veterans on tricycles

At our age," she said, "you go for the small things and you do them as well as you can.

It's good to hope; it's the waiting that spoils it (Yiddish

The secret of a happy life is to know when to stop and then to go that little bit further.

The only way of catching a train I ever discovered is to miss the one before. G. K. Chesterton

The secret of a happy life, Lewis, is to know when to stop and then to go that little bit further.

England is never in a hurry because she is eternal.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Men dig tons of earth to find an ounce of gold.