Quotes About Patience

Honey, Don't go shooting all the dogs 'cause one of them's got fleas

We don't get caught in the trap of letting the situation upset us and then having to stay upset waiting for the situation to change to our satisfaction.

We trust in God's will knowing that, in general, we are far more efficient and effective when we respond calmly and in an unhurried manner than when we explode in unthinking anger.

early in sobriety I routinely threw my sobriety at other drivers on the freeway, people who didn't even want it.

I also choose to believe that if I do a thing for the right motive and leave the results up to God, everything will turn out the way it is supposed to. Not necessarily the way I would have chosen, but definitely the way it is supposed to be.

I am not against golf, since I cannot but suspect it keeps armies of the unworthy from discovering trout...

Golf is essentially an exercise in masochism conducted out-of-doors.

Sometimes you've just got to let them scream, right?

I began to fear that constant hoping might cause me to sacrifice today for the illusion of a better tomorrow." - The Last Self-Help Book You'll Ever Need

Sit up to slow down,

God answers every prayer, Rabbi Schumann once told him, years ago. Mostly His answer is 'no'.

Riven eyed him sidelong. "Cale, I think … that he is waiting, too. Like the shadowwalkers." "For what?" Cale started to say, but could not find his voice at first. "For what?" "For you to let him go." Riven gestured at Jak.

Riven peeked into the wagon. "You show me what you can do with those balls when I see you again, yes?" "Yes," Elden peeped.

Yap, yap little dog.

Investing should be like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement… go to Las Vegas.

I contemplate my last moments and wait for the explanation I know will not be offered.

When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa I didn't make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn't make a phone call. So for six years I didn't make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books.

The wish to disappear sends many travelers away. If you are thoroughly sick of being kept waiting at home or at work, travel is perfect: let other people wait for a change. Travel is a sort of revenge for having been put on hold, or having to leave messages on answering machines, not knowing your party's extension, being kept waiting all your working life - the homebound writer's irritants. But also being kept waiting is the human conditon.

There's always a way if you're not in a hurry.

Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel.

Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you fall into various trials, knowing that the trying of your faith produces patience. And let patience have its perfect work, so that you may be perfect and whole, lacking nothing. Jas 1:2–4

that by endurance and by the encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.

Faith is the cure that heals all troubles. Without faith there is no hope and no love. Faith comes before hope, and before love. (Sheikh Muhammad ibn Zaidi bani Tihama)

Faith comes before hope, and hope before love.