Quotes About Patience

Perhaps he was in a hurry because he didn't get the idea for McDonald's until he was aged 52.

I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.

I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.

If you stop doing the wrong thing the right thing will happen by itself'.

Not one of us gets all of the understanding we want, and few get as much as we need.

Be good to the child and he will come to you tomorrow. - Unknown

Giving children too much, today and tomorrow, can deprive them of more precious and profound gifts, such as patience, contentment, consideration, and other skills that help make for a rich, successful, and fulfilled existence.

A child learns gratitude by not getting everything she wants. A child learns patience by waiting. A child learns generosity by sharing and giving. A child learns self-control by having to control herself. And above all, she learns contentment by not being trained to always need more and faster.

Indulgence is a long-term process full of thousands of moments.

For most parents, the true thank-yous come much later.

Unspoiling will get easier and easier. You will get better at it and more comfortable with it. Your children will need to test it less and less.

Hardly last and supremely paramount, you deserve forgiveness, your own and the children's, for your inevitable moments of moodiness and impatience, for your mistakes and missteps, and for all that is part of the human condition that makes children and their behaviors forgivable.

Good politicians know when to move on, sooner or later.

To pray rightly 'Thy will be done' is to trust that God's intentions toward us are good and gracious. To pray for the will of God might be to ask ultimately for the opposite fo what we want and to trust that the unknown quantity of His intention is tempered by love for us.

Effective listening is more than simply avoiding the bad habit of interrupting others while they are speaking or finishing their sentences. It's being content to listen to the entire thought of someone rather than waiting impatiently for your chance to respond.

Life is a process--just one thing after another. When you lose it, just start again.

Even though we often mess up, most of us are doing the best that we know how with the circumstances that surround us.

A low mood is not the time to analyze your life. To do so is emotional suicide. If you have a legitimate problem, it will still be there when your state of mind improves. The trick is to be grateful for our good moods and graceful in our low moods—not taking them too seriously. The next time you feel low, for whatever reason, remind yourself, "This too shall pass." It will.

If we would just slow down, happiness would catch up to us.

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

It is from time to time the duty of a serious investor to accept the depreciation of his holdings with equanimity and without reproaching himself

Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; If you seek them, they do not hide; If you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you.

At nap times, Betsy's parents would use the same routine. But if after half an hour Betsy had either cried the whole time or had fallen asleep and wakened again, they would end that nap period.

Each time you go to your child, spend no more than one or two minutes with him. Remember, your job is to reassure him (and yourself), not necessarily to help him stop crying, and certainly not to help him fall asleep: the goal is for him to learn to fall asleep on his own.