Quotes About Patience

Fairacre children could handle tools, and had the plodding unhurried methods of the countryman that produce amazing results. Here was the perfect medium for their inborn skill. The golden sand was turned, raked, piled, patted and ornamented with shells and seaweed,

The worst of getting old,' said Winnie, 'is the time one has to spend in patching oneself up.

My schooldays coincided with a complete ban on teaching the alphabet, and I have a terrible time finding anything in the telephone directory.

My old ma used to say: Do what's to hand and the Lord will look after the rest.

You can learn a whole lot from the earth , that the lord has blessed us with . When pulling the grass up by it's roots, you can see that it isn't greener on the other side . Meaning we should always be faithful in all that we do including The relationships we have with others.

Don't let go too soon, but don't hold on too long.

It isn't that I didn't question why I spent all my days waiting

The ending to this scene, I know it. Sirix will fail to return and Serena will still continue to wait. Even though this is repeated multiple times, Sirix will still fail to return. Even though this is repeated multiple times, Serena will still have to wait. I know....History won't change.

Strong winds eventually cease, unhappy families return to peace

We're already too late, so there's no need to go any faster.

I consoled myself with the knowledge that if I were any good at pool I'd run the table quickly and not be able to play as long. As with so many things, there was utility in avoiding excellence.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it.

La paciencia es quizá el recurso más escaso de todos en un mundo en el que la degradación del poder sigue su curso.

That any gentleman should always keep In stern control this writing itch we're seized with; That he must hold in check the great impatience We feel to give the world these idle pastimes; For, through this eagerness to show our works, 'Tis likely we shall cut a foolish figure.

La nature, d'elle-même, quand nous la laissons faire, se tire doucement du désordre où elle est tombée.

CLEANTE. Spoke like a true young man. Now just calm down, And moderate your towering tantrums, will you? We live in such an age, with such a king, That violence can not advance our cause.

ARNOLPHE. WAS SHE sad after I went away? Georgette. Sad? No. Arnolphe. No? Georgette. Yes, yes. Arnolphe. Why, then? Georgette. May I die on the spot, but she expected to see you return every minute; and we never heard a horse, an ass, or a mule pass by without her thinking it was you.

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.