Quotes About Patience

How can one come to possess great faith? Now listen, here is the answer to that: First, the blade, then the ear, then the full corn in the ear. Faith must grow by soil, moisture, and exercise.

Great faith doesn't come out of great effort, but out of great surrender.

Waiting in line is a great opportunity to meet people, daydream, or play.

Nothing goes down slower than a golf handicap.

I would tell your generation, wherever you are on the totem poll - whether you're halfway there or at the bottom, don't despise small beginnings; small beginnings get you ready for great things.

Great souls endure in silence.

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

Before every great opportunity God gave me a great trial.

The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

You cannot train a horse with shouts and expect it to obey a whisper.

Sometimes, when something really great happens to me, I like to wait two weeks before I tell anyone about it, because I like to use the word 'fortnight'.

What you have to remember is that the great feelings come after the terrible ones.

The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.

It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.

Those times when you feel like quitting can be times of great opportunity, for God uses your troubles to help you grow.

You know, great powers don't get angry, great powers don't make decisions hastily in a crisis.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

Real change happens bit by bit. It takes great effort to become effortless at anything. There are no quick fixes.

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.

The great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.

The great art of writing is knowing when to stop.