Quotes About Patience

Resist beginnings; the prescription comes too late when the disease has gained strength by long delays.

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

Time is generally the best doctor.

A short absence is the safest.

Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim. (Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.)

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all." "Be patient and tough; one day this pain will be useful to you.

To give another person the benefit of the doubt was about as difficult an everyday task as anyone faced.

I'd always wanted to play an instrument myself, but my folks didn't have the dough to buy me one, and I didn't have the patience to learn anyway. My attention span was five seconds.

We'd recorded Black Sabbath in one day. Sabotage took about four thousand years.

Taking five or ten or fifteen years to make an album, like Guns N' Roses did, is just f**king ridiculous, end of story. By that time, your career's died, been resurrected, and then died again.

Bit by bit, the sparrow builds its nest.

Your brain can only absorb what your ass can endure.

The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of butterflies in the adjoining meadows.

To my daughter Leonora without whose never failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been completed in half the time.

You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.

I will loose my camel, and trust it to God!" "No, no, not so," said the prophet, "tie thy camel, and trust it to God!

Give a boy twenty thousand dollars and put him in business, and the chances are that he will lose every dollar of it before he is a year older. Like buying a ticket in the lottery; and drawing a prize, it is "easy come, easy go." He does not know the value of it; nothing is worth anything, unless it costs effort. Without self-denial and economy; patience and perseverance, and commencing with capital which you have not earned, you are not sure to succeed in accumulating.

so I wait for you like a lonely house till you will see me again and live in me. Till then my windows ache.

It takes a very long time to become young.

Whenever you suffer misfortune or illness, think "This repays my karmic debts from former lifetimes and purifies my negative karma!" No matter what happiness you have, regard it as the kindness of the Three Jewels and arouse the strong yearning of devoted gratitude! When you meet with enmity and hatred, think "This is a good friend helping me to cultivate patience!" Think, "This helper for patience is a messenger sent by the victorious ones!" (p. 105)

For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

When you don't know what to do, go back to the places, the people and the promises where you know you last heard God.