Quotes About Patience

To dispair is to turn your back on God.

You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.

The Woman had told her that Tomorrow never comes, but Elizabeth knows better. It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen…wonderful things.

Ah, well, let's not borrow trouble; the rate of interest is too high.

There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a comforting thought

But maybe everything'll go all right. In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take what ever God sends.

Thirty seconds can be very long sometimes. Long enough to work a miracle or a revolution.

It is always safe to dream of spring. For it is sure to come; and if it be not just as we have pictured it, it will be infinitely sweeter.

Since ever the world was spinning And till the world shall end You've your man in the beginning Or you have him in the end, But to have him from start to finish And neither nor borrow nor lend Is what all of the girls are wanting And none of the gods can send

But the summer had been a very happy one, too -- a time of glad living with summer suns and skies, a time of keen delight in wholesome things; a time of renewing and deepening of old friendships; a time in which she had learned to live more nobly, to work more patiently, to play more heartily.

Marilla, what if I fail!' 'You'll hardly fail completely in one day and there's plenty more days coming,' said Marilla.

To be obliged to sit still when mental agony urges us to stride up and down is the refinement of torture.

If only she were a boy, speeding in khaki by Carol's side to the western front! She had wished that in a burst of romance when Jem had gone, without perhaps, meaning it. She meant it now. There were moments when waiting at home, in safety and comfort, seemed an unendurable thing.

I can always get through to-day very nicely. It's to-morrow I can't live through

It is when my umbrella turns inside out that I am convinced of the total depravity of inanimate things.

Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good - Anne Shirley

A woman cannot ever be sure of not being married till she is buried, Mrs. Doctor, dear, and meanwhile I will make a batch of cherry pies.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

I don't want sunbursts and marble halls. I just want you... We'll just be happy, waiting and working for each other—and dreaming. Oh, dreams will be very sweet now.

At life's banquet of success I may not be the guest of honor, but I'll be among those present.

Some women's intended from the start to be old maids, and I'm afraid I'm one of them, Miss Shirley, ma'am, because I've awful little patience with the men.

Like all woods, it seemed to be holding and enfolding secrets in its recesses,—secrets whose charm is only to be won by entering in and patiently seeking.

You know there are some people, like Matthew and Mrs. Allen, that you can love right off without any trouble. And there are others, like Mrs. Lynde, that you have to try very hard to love. You know you ought to love them because they know so much and are such active workers in the church, but you have to keep reminding yourself of it all the time or else you forget.

Yes; but cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good