Quotes About Patience

I know it's an experience that I need to have if God's putting me through it.

Every Dog Has A Day But A Cat Has 365

Like any normal cat Madame Phloi lived by the Rule of Three. She resisted any innovation three times before accepting it, tackled an obstacle three times before giving up, and tried each activity three times before tiring of it.

Chess isn't one of my favorites, it takes a cool calculating hatred to play well, and I'm not good at that.

War is hell and waiting is hell and war is waiting.

Despite everything, I believed somehow there was time. Love's first mistake. Perhaps love's only mistake.

This was the way it was with Marc. His heart had a narrow field of vision. I knew it held a great many things, but the aperture was small and I had to wait my turn to be rotated back around into the light where I would glow so brightly I'd be all he could see.

nothing. Some of the women are still wading

You spend enough time at the racetrack, you know your horse, okay? You always know your horse.

Time is mercurial when you're with children. A whole morning making pancakes and playing freeze tag goes by in a minute, whereas waiting for Jasper to tie his shoes or catch up on his bike is endless.

Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.

For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.

For fast-acting relief from stress, try slowing down.

Waiting until you can afford to live in the style you'd like to become accustomed to is a curse against setting sail for distant horizons.

We shall sooner have the bird by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

It is best not to swap horses while crossing the river.

When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

I am a patient man--always willing to forgive on the Christian terms of repentance, and also to give ample time for repentance. Still, I must save this government, if possible. What I cannot do, of course I will not do, but it may as well be understood, once for all, that I shall not surrender this game leaving any available card unplayed.

It follows as a matter of course that a half-hour answer to a speech of an hour and a half can be but a very hurried one.

The struggle for today is not altogether for today -- it is for a vast future also.

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: And this, too, shall pass away.

Anger's not a good emotion.

Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.' 

I haven't been given many things, but I've been given ample, limitless patience.