Quotes About Patience

I could not be greedy, about money, I could not be greedy about miles or rides, and I could not be greedy about closeness with people; all things come in their own time, and are not mine to keep or covet - just to enjoy and learn from.

Savoir souffrir sans se plaindre, ça c'est la seule chose pratique, c'est la grande science, la leçon à apprendre, la solution du problème de la vie. [Knowing how to suffer without complaining is the only practical thing, it's the great science, the lesson to learn, the solution to the problem of life.]

he who lives on hope will die fasting—

The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.

Youth isn't the problem—it'll pass with the years…

Minor inconveniences are just that, and nothing more.

Movies take years to bring to theater, but hours to watch. Strikingly similar to success.

People get too big to do the little things and then wonder why they don't have the big results.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait 'til the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.

I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait 'till the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light. [Reply upon being asked how he made his discoveries]

Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.

Do not spend the day in gathering flowers by the way side, lest night come upon you before you arrive at your journey's end, and then you will not reach it.

A constant and joyous readiness at the call of God to depart hence [to heaven], with a cheerful patience to continue here [on earth] during His pleasure, is the most perfect and blessed temper that a Christian can arrive at. It gives God the highest glory and keeps the soul in sweetest peace.

Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.

They that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength they shall mount up with wings as eagles they shall run, and not be weary they shall walk and not faint.

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.

Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.

God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.

It's an odd feeling-farewell-there is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested for courage and if we're tested at all, it's for patience, for doing without, for how well we can endure loneliness.

We must strive to be like the moon

When I said a few weeks ago that our people would eat cooking oil and olives if necessary, I didn't mean that there really would be only oil and olives. What I meant was that our people have the necessary patience to endure the current difficult situation. Palestinians would rather do without certain food items than their national rights.