Quotes About Patience

If it doesn't make callouses on a girl's hands it will make them on her heart. I've been waiting all my life for a chance, and the chance has never come." Something flared in her.

A fitted shoe is a right good shoe," said the old man, enthusiastically. "I'll fit that shoe to the breadth of a hair." "And you'll be all the night about it," declared the son. "Better a late start than a never ending," said the father.

Some damn fools say they ain't a God! Some damn fools! Something for nothing. That's what He gives! Steady

It ain't every hand that can move as fast as the eye can jump, and faster. But patience climbs the highest hill and—

I hate your infernal croaking, but, if you're bound to talk, I suppose that I got to listen. Blaze away and finish up.

Remember; no matter how desperate the situation seems, time spent thinking clearly is never time wasted.

Earning trust is not easy, nor is it cheap, nor does it happen quickly. Earning trust is hard and demanding work. Trust comes only with genuine effort, never with a lick and a promise.

Wise sayings are not always easy to understand at first. Sometimes it takes effort, time, and maturity to comprehend a deeper insight.

I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while.

Tolerate the dull: they too have their story

Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.

Whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Except in such unusual circumstances, get in the habit of selling too soon. And when you've sold, don't torment yourself if the winning set continues without you. In all likelihood it won't continue long. If it does, console yourself by thinking of all the times when selling too soon preserved gains you would otherwise have lost.

There are some situations in human life, it is true, in which it may seem wiser to wait out bad times. But that is seldom a wise course where your money is concerned. If you let it get stuck in a bad venture, and if the problems last, you can go for years without having the use of that money. It's locked up when, instead, it should be out chasing gains for you in other, livelier ventures.

Acting advice is a bit like your parents teaching you how to drive a car. You know they're right, but you still kind of want them to shut up a bit.

A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.

Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.

What you and I might rate as an absolute disaster, God may rate as a pimple-level problem that will pass. He views your life the way you view a movie after you've read the book. When something bad happens, you feel the air sucked out of the theater. Everyone else gasps at the crisis on the screen. Not you. Why? You've read the book. You know how the good guy gets out of the tight spot. God views your life with the same confidence. He's not only read your story...he wrote it.

The key is this: Meet today's problems with today's strength. Don't start tackling tomorrow's problems until tomorrow. You do not have tomorrow's strength yet. You simply have enough for today.

Even though you may not understand how God works, you know he does.

Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.

men bowed, being unable to force the issue. As Sethirkhopeshef

A man hauls in the fish he baits for and at the depth at which he fishes.

We ask a great deal of the world at first -- then less -- and then less.