Quotes About Patience

The darkest day if you live till tomorrow will have past away.

Be trusted with the Lord. Wait for His seasonable aid, And though it tarry, wait: The promise may be long delay'd, But cannot come too late.

Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust him for his grace, behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.

Be thankful that God's answers are wiser than your answers.

After years of patient study (and with cricket there can be no other kind), I have decided that there is nothing wrong with the game that the introduction of golf carts wouldn't fix in a hurry.

I would make Reason my guide, but she should sometimes sit Patiently by the way-side, while I traced The mazes of the pleasant wilderness Around me. She should be my counsellor, But not my tyrant. For the spirit needs Impulses from a deeper source than hers, And there are motions, in the mind of man, That she must look upon with awe.

It seems to me a proof of the small advance our race has made in true wisdom, that we find it so hard to give up doing anything we have meant to do.

I haven't done anything--yet.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable objective you may have in mind--not all of a sudden, perhaps not in one swift and sweeping act of achievement--but you can do it gradually, day by day and play by play, if you want to do it, if you work to do it, over a sufficiently long period of time.

Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn't all have to be by tomorrow!

Keep a journal, and don't assume that your work has to accomplish anything worthy: artists and peace-workers are in it for the long haul, and not to be judged by immediate results.

If it should happen you wake up and Armageddon has come, lie still.

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

The heart of standing is that you cannot fly.

You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.

A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.

National Review… stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.

Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.

Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

That's what I can't stand. I know I'll bounce back, and that's what I can't stand.

Of course there is enough to stir our wonder anywhere; there's enough to love, anywhere, if one is strong enough, if one is diligent enough, if one is perceptive, patient, kind enough -- whatever it takes.

He has all the time in the world, he can pick and choose, all the time you have is the moment of his arrival.