Quotes About Patience

I'd learned not to put a question mark where God put a period.

You do the foot work, and leave the results up to God.

You're not always going to be able to see the big picture. But you've got to know that, no matter what, you'll be okay. Keep praying.

You've got to learn to trust Him, Cup. You're not always going to be able to see the big picture.

On the other hand, the Bible contains much that is relevant today, like Noah taking forty days to find a place to park.

Perhaps this is how you know you're doing the thing you're intended to: No matter how slow or how slight your progress, you never feel that it's a waste of time.

If you knew where your happiness came from, it gave you patience. You realized that a lot of the time, you were just waiting out a situation, and that took the pressure off; you no longer looked to every interaction to actually do something for you.

It's hard to believe the old saying that "things happen for a reason" when the things happening to you are god-awful and you just want them to be over with. No matter how I looked at it, I just couldn't wrap my head around the idea that this had happened for some reason that made any sense.

When it's not easy, you have to remember: things always get better.

People say it's better to know the truth, but what if the ending's a bad one? Is it still better to know? Or is it kinder to keep that string of hope dangling? To believe that maybe if you just wait long enough, everything could still end the way you want.

Someday soon," he says. "I promise.

Sometimes understanding comes in little drops and other times it rushes in like the tide, rolling everything over as it comes.

Young writers if they are to mature require a period of between three and seven years in which to live down their promise. Promise is like the mediaeval hangman who after settling the noose, pushed his victim off the platform and jumped on his back, his weight acting a drop while his jockeying arms prevented the unfortunate from loosening the rope. When he judged him dead he dropped to the ground.

Anger is the only thing to put off until tomorrow.

Who I will be when I wake after enduring

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.

if we have these personal problems, we must live with them and see how time brings some kind of personal evolution rather than a solution.

Few of us have the necessary unselfishness to hear with gladness the talents of others extolled or to listen with patience to the successes of those whom we despise.

Barbara returned the pressure. "It's turned out all right after all," she said contentedly. "Things usually do, somehow. You worry and fuss and try to make things go the way you think they should, and then you find that the other way was best. I'm going to try not to worry about things anymore.

It's turned out all right after all," she said contentedly. "Things usually do, somehow. You worry and fuss and try to make things go the way you think they should, and then you find that the other way was best. I'm going to try not to worry about things anymore.

Perhaps your father wouldn't like it?" suggested Patty doubtfully. "Uncle James didn't like it much. I mean Hugo had to be very tactful about it. He couldn't really get on with his plans until Uncle James died. He died quite suddenly." (Arsenic, thought Will—but he still remained silent.)

Can't we have jam?" "Not today," said Sal. "You can have jam yesterday and tomorrow," said Tilly solemnly

You worry and fuss and try to make things go the way you think they should – and then you find that the other way was best. I'm going to try not to worry about things any more.