Quotes About Patience

Jupiter listened patiently, and after careful consideration he granted what he considered to be righteous prayers to come up the shaft and into Heaven. Then he blew all those prayers he considered unworthy back down, so that they would not pollute Heaven.

C'è chi viene portato alla meta da un vento veloce, e chi, al contrario, si macera in un'insopportabile bonaccia. C'è

Youth is always impatient, even though, ironically, youth alone has time for patience.

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.

If you come into success too soon, you'll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally, you'll be happier with yourself in the end.

You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they're ready.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Time discovers truth.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by soft falling.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

The falling drops at last will wear the stone.

Continual dropping wears away a stone.

Are we going to get out of here, do you think?" "Oh, they'll have to release us sooner or later. Prisoners of war, which is how they must be classifying us, have to be released at the end of hostilities. There are international rules. I was a prisoner of war before, nearly forty years ago.

It was like a horse, really. The trick was not to grab, but to caress. "Tuscan Tycoon's Wife

cogitationis poenam nemo patitur!1.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

This dog won't hunt. This horse won't jump. You get the general drift. However, he keeps on trying, but the fire won't burn, the kindling is wet, and the faint glow of the ember is weak and dying. He has no other choice then but to let It go and take a nap on the ground there, lying Next to her—for whom Dame Fortune has more Woes and tribulations yet in store.

schon im Bette drängen sich die Ideen zu dir meine Unsterbliche Geliebte, hier und da freudig, dann wieder traurig. Vom Schicksaale abwartend, ob es unß erhört...

A free man must be able to endure it when his fellow men act and live otherwise than he considers proper. He must free himself from the habit, just as soon as something does not please him, of calling for the police.