Quotes About Patience

Thank God my parents had an abundance of patience.

He had never disagreed with anyone in his life, no matter how unfairly they may have treated him. He preferred to swallow his tears, suppress his anger and bitterness; he would bear anything rather than oppose a person directly. Nor did it ever occur to him to wonder whether this forbearance might not be harmful to others.

Good things come to people who wait, but better things come to those who go out and get them.

Nothing and nobody could aggravate you the way your child could aggravate you.

A marriage is hard work and sometimes it's a bit of a bore. It's like housework. It's never finished. You've just got to grit your teeth and keep working away at it, day after day.

Frances longed to Google it. How was she going to cope for ten days without instant answers to idle questions?

Each time she fell out of love with him, he saw it happen and waited it out. He never stopped loving her, even those times when he felt deeply hurt and betrayed by her, even in that bad year when they talked about separating, he'd just gone along with it, waiting for her to come back to him, thanking God and his dad up above each time she did.

We should have given up years ago. It's so clear now. We should have "explored other options." We should have adopted. We gave up years of our lives and we very nearly destroyed our marriage. Our happy ending could have and should have arrived so much sooner. And even though I adore the fact that Francesca has Ben's eyes, I also see now that her biological connection to us is irrelevant.

Relax and enjoy the journey. The stream will carry you this way and that, but will carry you forward to where you need to go.

Their mother had that look of controlled impatience she used to get when her children fought and she didn't have time to properly lose her temper because she had things to do.

there is nothing more patronizing to an Infertile than to hear a new mother complaining,

You mustn't take any notice of her,' says Enigma. 'I often sing a little song in my head until she's finished talking.

I'm prepared to wait this out. I will wait for you to finish with him." She took a deep, shaky breath. "Have your revolting little affair and then give my husband back.

Accepting or allowing what happens or what others do, without active response or resistance.

Each time she fell out of love with him, he saw it happen and waited it out.

send a message back through time to her fourteen-year-old self: "Don't worry, it all works out. You get a personality, you get a job, you work out what to do with your hair, and you get a boy who thinks you're beautiful.

All of a sudden she thought she had all the time in the world. Pride comes before someone trips you flat on your face.

Porque en tus hijos hay algo que saca al niño que hay en ti. Nada ni nadie puede sacarte de quicio como tu hijo.

I took so long coming to the door. I had no idea crutches were so damned tricky. I imagined myself swinging jauntily along, but they dig into your armpits like I don't know what.

Madeleine thought, "thank you darling, because that always works, doesn't it, telling a woman to calm down

I don't think it works like that," said Joy. "It starts out small. You put up with little things in a relationship and then … the little things gradually get bigger.

You put up with little things in a relationship and then … the little things gradually get bigger.

Her husband was a patient man, but she had noticed a glazed look on his face as she'd talked, admittedly for quite a long time,

Why buy a cow when you can get the milk for free?' (Her daughters shrieked when they heard that phrase.)