Quotes About Patience

but President Harding told Secretary of State Hughes, "Frankly, it is difficult for me to be consistently patient with our good friends of the Church who are properly and earnestly zealous in promoting peace until it comes to making warfare on someone of the contending religion…"23

The disease will strike harder in the Blue-voting cities than the Red-voting empty spaces, and many in the Blue zone may blame the Red for the miseries ahead. In the next political chapter, there will be little patience for those earnest anthropological expeditions into MAGA-land that once engaged so much media energy. How do you listen to people if you blame their votes for killing your mother before her time?

The Christian God is slow to anger and rich in mercy (see Exodus 34: 6, echoed in Joel 2: 13 and many other places in Scripture).

If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before.

Someone once figured out that the average American will spend a cumulative six months of her life waiting for the light to change.

We remained in our seats as everyone around us stood with the personal items they had rushed to retrieve. Why do people always do that? It's not like they can go anywhere.

you go to school every morning and sit there for

One of the greatest skills any leader can master is becoming comfortable with silence.

Bisognerebbe chiarire una volta per tutte perché "un momento brutto" può andare avanti per mesi, mentre un momento di grazia dura sempre e soltanto un momento.

I'm tempted to kill the general first, then his staff officers. Sometimes you just want to eat pudding early. All the same, I make myself wait.

The Way is to straighten oneself and await the direction of destiny.

Just stay at the center of the circle and let all things take their course."68

In the empty darkness, we will see the light if we just endure.

Lao Tzu, likewise a model, gives us the basic truth: Let the Tao be present in your life and you will become genuine. Whoever is planted in the Tao will not be rooted up.122 These three [things] are your greatest treasures: simplicity, patience, [and] compassion. 123 Cultivated in the person, integrity is true.124

She was young and scared, and hadn't realized there was time to spare.

It's impossible to pick up a basset hound that doesn't want to be picked up, just as it's impossible to make one keep walking if it doesn't want to walk anymore. It'll just lie down and refuse to budge.

To watch. To wait. To wonder at a world in chaos,' the girl said. 'And hope one day you fools might learn.

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.

I went and took golf lessons so Dad would let me play with him. I was just terrible... but I was able to have a wonderful time just walking around with Dad. I can see the real pleasure of that game.

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.

Without expectations we live in the present, not the future, and we enjoy each moment as it happens without destroying that enjoyment with the disappointment of unfulfilled expectations.

Finding a needle in a haystack was not as hard as it sounded, if you had a thread tied to the needle.

TODAY IS GROUNDHOG DAY.2 Perhaps now it's better known for the movie 3 of the same name. Here is my ironic Groundhog day resolution… I will continue to do what I've always done, while expecting things to improve and the outcome to change!

Smyth's predictions of the date of the Second Coming, as with everyone else's predictions of this event, have proved inaccurate.