Quotes About Patience

Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him" (Job 13:15).

All the way to Heaven is Heaven", said Saint Catherine of Siena. We

As Francis Thompson wrote in his classic poem "The Hound of Heaven," "Is my gloom, after all, shade of His hand outstretched caressingly?

Your problem, however big it is (or however small), is His wise and loving will to you, even though it may not look wise or loving. It is His deliberate permissive will. And your response to it is your response to Him.

He stoops down even into the spiritual nursery and carefully watches over spiritual infants like us.

other little wooden fences can come down too. How? When? God only knows.

I have all the time in the world," she said. "Literally.

I may be dead by the time you return.

The best way to handle a situation in which you love the company but not the current price is to make a small commitment and then increase it in the next sell-off.

A successful stockpicker has the same relationship with a drop in the market as a Minnesotan has with freezing weather. You know it's coming, and you're ready to ride it out, and when your favorite stocks go down with the rest, you jump at the chance to buy more.

When we say this, we're assuming you are a long-term investor who is determined to stick with stocks no matter what.

That's not to say there's no such thing as an overvalued market, but there's no point worrying about it.

The lesson here is: don't spend a lot of time poring over the past performance charts. That's not to say you shouldn't pick a fund with a good long-term record. But it's better to stick with a steady and consistent performer than to move in and out of funds, trying to catch the waves. Another major issue is what happens to a

If you can't convince yourself "When I'm down 25 percent, I'm a buyer" and banish forever the fatal thought "When I'm down 25 percent, I'm a seller," then you'll never make a decent profit in stocks.

Houses, like stocks, are most likely to be profitable when they're held for a long period of time. Unlike stocks, houses are likely to be owned by the same person for a number of years—seven, I think, is the average. Compare this to the

Personal mastery is the discipline of continually clarifying and deepening our personal vision, of focusing our energies, of developing patience, and of seeing reality objectively. As such, it is an essential cornerstone of the learning organization—the learning organization's spiritual foundation.

The Japanese believe building a great organization is like growing a tree; it takes twenty-five to fifty years.

Personal mastery is the discipline of continually clarifying and deepening our personal vision, of focusing our energies, of developing patience, and of seeing reality objectively.

We are impatient for results.

Only an idiot would have assumed, he mourned, that despite his years of folly and neglect, his first love would wait in limbo while he solved his life so that they could travel on together into a golden future, never having aged.

That American [Philip Kapleau] was asking us whether it is possible for him to attain enlightenment in one week of sesshin. Tell him this for me: don't say days, weeks, years, or even lifetimes. Tell him to vow to attain enlightenment though it take the infinite, the boundless, the incalculable future.4

Maybe you're just wandering around out here with your thumb up your ass, waiting for some answer that might let you off the hook.

We told ourselves that we would assume that nothing would be done when we expected it to be done; the fact that it happened at all would be enough.

Shop early for the best, we had often been told, and wait until just before the market closes for the cheapest.