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Quotes About Patience

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
~ Jonathan Carroll
Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it.
~ Swedish Proverb
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
~ Jules Renard
Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
~ Lord Alfred Tennyson
Love and stoplights can be cruel.
~ Sesame Street
She heard with patience all unto the end, And strove to maister sorrowful assay, Which greater grew, the more she did contend; And almost rent her tender hart in tway And love fresh coles unto her fire did lay: For greater love, the greater is the losse...
~ Edmund Spenser
It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants.
~ Henry Brooks Adams
If our greatest hungers were to be granted as easily as our bodily needs, we certainly would never be able to achieve the noble feelings of friendship and love. Patience will make the banquet of life ever so much more resplendent.
~ Unknown
If you wait, I will come for you...remembering your touch, your kiss, your warm embrace. I'll My find my way back to you. Please say you'll be waiting.
~ Tracy Chapman
She who loves last loves best.
~ Dar Williams
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
~ Robert Browning
When Death to either shall come -- I pray it be first to me.
~ Robert Bridges
Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith.
~ Adel Bestavros
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.
~ Bible
It was from an old friend who ¦ thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier.
~ Charles Grodin
Yours if the first face that I saw. I think I was blind before I met you. Now I don't know where I am. I don't know where I've been, but I know where I want to go. And so I thought I'd let you know that these things take forever, I - especially - am slow. But I realize that I need you and I wondered if I could come home.
~ Bonnie Tyler
Time is relative to where you are, what you do, and who you are waiting for.
~ Spanish proverb
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
~ Unknown
It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love, but the most unlovable
~ Ashley Montagu
Grumbling is the death of love.
~ Jeremy Taylor
It takes no time to fall in love, but it takes you years to know what love is.
~ Jason Mraz
A REAL man, the kind of man a woman wants to give her life to, is one who will respect her dignity, who will honor her like the valuable treasure she is. A REAL man will not attempt to rip her precious pearl from it's protective shell, or persuade her with charm to give away her treasure prematurely, but he will wait patiently until she willingly gives him the prize of her heart. A REAL man will cherish and care for that prize forever.
~ Leslie Ludy
Love me little, love me long
~ Proverb
O Israel, put your hope in the Lord, for with the Lord is unfailing love and with him is full redemption
~ Bible