Quotes About Patience

If you've never known love, you never know where it is, you don't know what it looks like or it sounds like, you look in the most unlikely places to find it.

Living people wait and see because they fool themselves that they have time.

People with a plan see and wait for the right time.

you see and wait

the wait is just as bad because you can't do anything else in Jamaica but wait for something to happen to you.

And yet the quickest way to not live at all is to take life one day at a time. It's the way I've discovered to not do a damn thing.

My mother sings One day at a time sweet Jesus, and even Daddy likes to say that, one day at a time, as if it's some strategy for living. And yet the quickest way to not live at all is to take life one day at a time.

If you can break a day down into quarters, then hours then half hours then minutes, you can chew down any stretch of time into bite sized.

When dog kill puss, and puss kill dog, the only one happy is the john-crow. And the john-crow been waiting for this all it life. The vulture with him red head and white feather chest and black wings.

Strategy for a Marathon I will start when the gun goes off. I will run for five miles. Feeling good, I will run to the tenth mile. At the tenth I will say, Only three more to the halfway." At the halfway mark, 13.1 miles, I will know fifteen is in reach. At fifteen miles I will say, You've run twenty before, keep going." At twenty I will say, Run home.

Our motto must be, "Non-Resistant Persistence.

Gaining freedom a little bit at a time is a biblical principle.

You're supposed to make a wish on a falling star," he murmured. "Did you?" "I most certainly did. It took two dozen, but you're finally here.

Jesus God!" His fingers sprang open, releasing her. They rose to gingerly probe the lump at back of his skull and he groaned again. The sound was echoed by the body crushed beneath him. "Beacom?" A lavender arm lifted to see what was beneath. "Good God, man, what are you doing under there?" "Waiting for you to rouse, your grace," came the gasped reply. "Hoping that in your boundless compassion, you might even be willing to heave off me!

Let the kettle boil slowly... For stew boiled in haste is of no use to anyone.

That's what this is about. It's somebody I lost, all right, it's my own self. Who I never was. Or who I tried to be and never got there. Somebody I waited for who never came. And never will.

Nothing that isn't supposed to will ever be

Don't just do something, stand there.

I'd suggest the best time to interrupt is when we've heard one word more than we want to hear.

allowing others the opportunity to fully express themselves before turning our attention to solutions or requests for relief.

How does one make muddy water clear? Be still, and the water will clear in time. How does one become still? Let everything happen, and stillness appears.

It takes much time and patience to perfect this practice, so do not be discouraged by failure. This habit is only developed with much difficulty. Yet when it is achieved, how great will be your joy!

I do not pray that you be delivered from pain. But I earnestly pray to God that He will give you strength and patience to bear the pain. Comfort yourself in Him who holds you fastened to the cross. He will free you when He thinks it is the right time. Happy are those who suffer with Him. Accustom yourself to suffer in this manner. Seek strength from Him to endure the pain for as long as He thinks necessary.

It should not surprise us that people cause us troubles, temptations, oppositions and difficulties. We should accept these and bear them for as long as God wishes, and view them as highly beneficial to our spiritual development.