Quotes About Patience

He is a calm man in a land of hotheads,

Some people just don't seem to realize, when they're moaning about not getting prayers answered, that no is the answer.

Calm yourself. Calm yourself . . . " In time I do, and I move forward.

I feel like the oldest person in the world with the longest stretch of life before me.

The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished.

The problem with doing nothing is that you never know when you're finished.

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

When a boat come upon a winding river, slow down and the river becomes straight.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

As a leader, one must sometimes take actions that are unpopular, or whose results will not be known for years to come.

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did. Even as a student, I saw many young men who had great natural ability, but who did not have the self-discipline and patience to build on their endowment.

A leader must also tend his garden; he, too, plants seeds, and then watches, cultivates, and harvests the result.

As a leader, one must sometimes take actions that are unpopular, or whose results will not be known for years to come. There are victories whose glory lies only in the fact that they are known to those who win them. This is particularly true of prison, where you must find consolation in being true to your ideals, even if no one else knows of it.

It had been twenty-one years since I had even touched my wife's hand.

Don't pray for a different ending,' Grandpa said. 'Pray for the strength to bear what we were given.

Musical Chairs. Except I thought, when God's providing the music, everyone gets a chair.

Brothers and sisters, praise itself is an act of faith. Why? When we're able to praise God before we see the answers to our prayers, we're saying, Lord, I trust You to work this out, according to Your purpose. I'm going to thank You now for what You're going to do.

Before she'd had to deal with it, complaints about the one- to two-second delay before words said on one end trickled into an ear on the other had struck Anna as frivolous. Not so. She was amazed at how seemingly small a thing could cripple conversation.

You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.

Then the patience borne of seventy years of disappointments came to his aid;

Signs follow, they do not precede.

Stand upon your tower and watch to see what God will say and how you will answer. Do this by assuming you are the person you want to be and seeing what you would see if your assumption was real. Remain there until you feel its certainty, until you reach the point of satisfaction, until you are convinced of its truth; and although the world may collapse around you, you will become that which you have assumed you are.

Don't be anxious or concerned as to results. Results will follow just as surely as day follows night. Have faith in this planting until the evidence is manifest to you that it is so. Your confidence in this procedure will pay great rewards. You wait but a little while in the consciousness of the thing desired; then suddenly, and when you least expect it, the thing felt becomes your expression.

Signs follow, they do not precede".