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Quotes About Patience

Sometimes it feels good to take the long way home.
~ Carol Rifka Brunt
In an evil hour thou bring'st her home. [You are marrying a shrew.]
~ Horace
...though I cannot promise to take you home," said North Wind, as she sank nearer and nearer to the tops of the houses, "I can promise you it will be all right in the end. You will get home somehow.
~ George MacDonald
Be careful. Wait out your year. Come home.
~ Jessica Day George
You have to remember: the wife been home all day cleaning asses and feeding faces. Sometimes the opposite.
~ Ray Romano
Being at home is a job in itself and raising a family for sure.
~ Laura Carmichael
Half an ear cocked, something in me, all night, every night, is waiting for you to come home.
~ Lionel Shriver
You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.
~ Nathaniel Philbrick
Hi, this is Sylvia. I'm not at home right now, so when you hear the beep ... hang up.
~ Nicole Hollander
I used to go to the same club every week in my home town, and even there I'd always stay at the back of the queue. I never once assumed I could just walk in.
~ Nikki Sanderson
I think a lot of nights together have been spoiled by somebody not being able to find a parking spot and saying, "Why don't we just go home?"
~ Paul Rust
No matter how many years you sit doing zazen, you will never become anything special.
~ Kodo Sawaki
The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards.
~ Alexander Jablokov
He who prorogues the honesty of today till to-morrow will probably prorogue his to-morrows to eternity.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
~ Jackie Robinson
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.
~ David Mallet
Delayed answers to prayer are not only trials of faith; they also give us opportunities to honor God through our steadfast confidence in Him, even when facing the apparent denial of our request.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Your honor, why would anyone in their right mind park in the passing lane?
~ Steven Wright
We honor God by asking for great things when they are a part of His promise. We dishonor Him and cheat ourselves when we ask for molehills where He has offered mountains.
~ Vance Havner
My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
~ Ovid
The suspense is terrible. I hope it'll last.
~ Gene Wilder
You can't change someone's behaviour, all you can do is remind them, and hope that Allah will change their heart.
~ Nouman Ali Khan