Quotes About Patience

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: Why cry if there is no hint of hope of hearing?

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won't have the patience to pick them out.

You just had to keep going, day by day.

It's what you do. Just keep trying, day by day, to sort everything out.

struggling. Eventually, after about five minutes,

capacity of a gnat. She could see that it was better

There's the waiting for something you don't know is coming. You don't even know what it is exactly, but you're hoping for it. You're imagining and living your life for it. That's the kind of waiting that makes a fist in your heart.

Sometimes when family members least deserve love, they need it most. Love is not appropriately expressed in threats, accusations, expressions of disappointment, or retaliation. Real love takes time, patience, help, and continuing performances.

We must at regular and appropriate intervals speak and reassure others of our love and the long time it takes to prove it by our actions. Real love does take time. The Great Shepherd had the same thoughts in mind when he taught, 'If ye love me, keep my commandments' (John 14:15; italics added) and 'If ye love me feed my sheep' (John 21:16; italics added). Love demands action if it is to be continuing.

On the one hand, he knows, before anything appears, what he will produce. On the other hand, the fruit that has not yet appeared knows nothing and does nothing.

Courage does not always soar, sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow.

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying,"I will try again tomorrow." - Mary Anne Radmacher

Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.

Fabius took command after Cannae, avoided pitched battle with Hannibal and played a waiting game, combining guerrilla tactics with a scorched-earth policy, to wear down the enemy (hence 'delayer').

even the British left-wing Fabian Society adopted his name and example – the message being, 'if you want the revolution to be successful, you must, like Fabius, bide your time'.

Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra?

long, Catiline, will you go on abusing our patience?')

everything works out for the best and that every reverse in life carries the seeds of something better in the future.

Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.

Don't get your drawers in a twist,' was one of her favourite phrases, 'or you'll find yourself bum-bare in the market-place . . . .

What do they say about revenge?" "It's a dish best served cold.

No one is born a parent. We all learn along the way.