Quotes About Patience

Treat your thoughts as if they were guests and wishes as if they were children.

Trusting God is something we do in the same manner as reading instructions; when everything else fails.

You can't live the future until it becomes the present.

You don't need to take advice from somebody. Wait for your time, it is the best advisor.

You have to be nice until you earn your first million, and after that people will be nice to you.

You need to learn to crawl before you try to walk.

You would never give up if you knew how close you were, would you? So never give up because you are always too close.

What is to give light must endure the burning.

The only way you can handle the future is to take care of the present.

Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?

I've told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tell him your plans.

But if God does not see fit to manifest entire deliverance at this time, then the person must honor God by his suffering and perseverance.

There's something fascinating about seeing something you don't like at first but directly know you will love—in time. People are that way, all through life. You come against a personality, and it questions yours. You shy away but know there are gratifying secrets there, and the half-open door is often more exciting than the wide.

One of the greatest labor-saving inventions of today is tomorrow.

I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.

Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.

It is not only by one's impulses that one achieves greatness, but also by patiently filing away the steel wall that separates what one feels from what one is capable of doing.

Well, right now it seems that things are going very badly for me, have been doing so for some considerable time, and may continue to do so well into the future. But it is possible that everything will get better after it has all seemed to go wrong. I am not counting on it, it may never happen, but if there should be a change for the better I should regard that as a gain, I should rejoice, I should say, at last! So there was something after all!

I'll start with the small things

But one doesn't expect out of life what one has already learned that it cannot give, but rather one begins to see more and more clearly that life is only a kind of sowing time, and the harvest is not here.

Now, I'm going through a similar period of struggle and despondency, of patience and impatience, of hope and desolation. But I must plod on and anyway, after a while I'll understand more about making watercolours. If it were that easy, one wouldn't take any pleasure in it. And it's exactly the same with painting.

Spero di avere un po' di fortuna con quel quadro dei mangiatori di patate.

Todas as suas bondades para comigo, hoje eu as achei maiores do que nunca, não consigo dizer-lhe como eu o sinto, mas eu lhe asseguro que essa bondade foi de um bom quilate, e se você não vê seus resultados, meu caro irmão, não se atormente por isto, sua bondade permanecerá.

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