Quotes About Patience

The true way to gain much is never to desire to gain too much.

One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.

Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly.

My praying friend, continue to make known your desires to God in all things. ... Let Him decide whether you are to receive what you ask for or not.

Some of us must wait for the best human gifts until we come to heavenly places. Our natural desire for musical utterance is perhaps a prophecy that in a perfect world we shall all know how to sing.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

Be quiet now and wait. It may be that the ocean one, the one we desire so to move into and become, desires us out here on land a little longer, going our sundry roads to the shore.

I think that the insane desire one has sometimes to bang and kick grumblers and peevish persons is a Divine instinct.

Our desire must be like a slow and stately ship, sailing across endless oceans, never in search of safe anchorage. Then suddenly, unexpectedly, it will find mooring for a moment.

I had to be healed of my desire to be healed.

Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.

The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.

Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.

If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue.

For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it.

In my own case I have frequently faced the pitcher when I had no desire whatever to hit. I wanted to get a base on balls.

The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.

If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill let yourself fall ill.

Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.

A small heart hath small desires.

The swiftest despatch seems slow to desire.

Be not for ever harassed by impotent desire.

Instant gratification in photography is not something that I need or desire. I find that the long, slow journey to the final print captivates me far more.

You can keep going on much less attention than you crave.