Quotes About Patience

Such an injury would vex a very saint.

Here comes the trout that must be caught with tickling.

I would it were bed-time, Hal, and all well.

Before thy hour be ripe.

By and by is easily said.

There's no time for a man to recover his hair that grows bald by nature.

When forty winters shall besiege thy brow,And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field.

He is winding the watch of his wit by and by it will strike.

How poor are they who have not patience What wound did ever heal but by degrees.

To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.

i'm not always optimistic but i am always hopeful.

The afterlife I leave to God, who is merciful and far too busy for impertinent questions from me. I may want to know more, but I don't need to. "One world at a time"-that's my feeling and that's more than enough given the present anguish that engulfs it.

Waiting for God" This morning I breathed in. It had rained early and the sycamore leaves tapped a few drops that remained, while waving the air's memory back and forth over the lawn and into our open window. Then I breathed out. This deliberate day eased past the calendar and waited. Patiently the sun instructed the shadows how to move; it held them, guided their gradual defining. In the great quiet I carried my life on, in again, out again.

They say that history is going on somewhere. They say it won't stop. I have held One picture still for a long time and waited.

He began to develop an obstinate patience.

Never had he been subjected to such rude treatment. How long could it last? How long, he wondered, could he abide it?

Never give reasons for what you think or do until you must. Maybe after a while, a better reason will pop into your head.

But though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry, because I never undertake any more work than I can go through with perfect calmness of spirit. JOHN WESLEY

You need to suspend your reaction when you feel like striking back, to listen when you feel like talking back, to ask questions when you feel like telling your opponent the answers, to bridge your differences when you feel like pushing for your way, and to educate when you feel like escalating. Breakthrough

The idea is to let it happen, not make it happen.

mastery comes to you over time when you're focused. Don't get ahead of yourself.

we know that our Sovereign is "Long suffering, and easy to be entreated;" more ready to grant, than we to ask, forgiveness.

I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die.

Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room.