Quotes About Patience

You'll never value information that comes to you easily.

So I reached over, took her hand, and squeezed gently. After a while, I said, "Molly, I don't think it's ever going to happen. But if it ever does, the first time damned well isn't going to be like that. You deserve better. So do I.

you have to smile at idiots and children.

That things will unfold as they are meant to," Forthill said. "That even in the face of an immediate ugliness, the greater picture will resolve into something all the more beautiful.

Patiently, more gentle than rain, she made me clean, while I drifted, my eyes closed.

And I had a hole in my chest that was going to take time to heal. But after a lot of time, and hurt, it would heal.

Somehow over the years people have gotten the impression that Wal-Mart was... just this great idea that turned into an overnight success. But...it was an outgrowth of everything we'd been doing since [1945].... And like most overnight successes, it was about twenty years in the making.

If you are patient...and wait long enough...Nothing will happen

Life is like a hot bath. It feels good while you're in it, but the longer you stay, the more wrinkled you get.

There's only one thing to do in crisis like this - SLEEP ON IT! Garfield, the cat.

we should be there with the needed hint or explanation—but only if our kids ask for it, and only as long as it's profitable. When we start to become irritated, we've helped enough.

It is often effective to say, "Well, it looks like things are not going well for you right now. When you get yourself to the point of putting your thoughts into words, come and talk to me. I'll be glad to listen." Then break eye contact and move on.

If parents pull their children out of struggles too quickly, children get fearful of just about everything. With that said, be realistic. Sometimes rescue is the higher priority.

Your responsibility is to not question God's actions or what looks like a lack of action. Your obligation is to count on God's character.

God always has a reason for what you are asked to endure.

When your prayers aren't answered immediately, sometimes God has a different—or better—plan.

No matter what your situation, God is always ready to listen.

You can count on God's faithfulness even when you are unfaithful.

God's various blessings are not always obvious.

It takes a long time for a father to drive the love out of a child.

There is the question of whether life is long enough to get over anything. I sat down on the ground to avoid tipping over from the enormity of it all.

After the passing of irresistible music you must make do with a dripping faucet.

Some nights are three nights long, some days a mere noon hour, then whistled back to work, the heart dredging sludge.

There is the question of whether life is long enough to get over anything.