Quotes About Patience

It is so easy to be hopeful in the daytime when you can see the things you wish on. But it was night, it stayed night. Night was striding across nothingness with the whole round world in his hands . . . They sat in company with the others in other shanties, their eyes straining against cruel walls and their souls asking if He meant to measure their puny might against His. They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.

No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.

Long-protracted suffering is apt to exhaust not only the invalid, but the compassion of others; violent emotions cannot be prolonged endlessly.

Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.

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Quiet fell upon the pickup and lasted for a little over nineteen minutes. Is that why you hang around with him?, Loretta asked. Cuz he saved your life? Sort'a. I know Earl isn't always easy to get along with. Fact is, he can be a real pain the ass more often than not, but after you spend enough time with him, and you learn to ignore his personality, he's a pretty decent guy. If you say so.

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.

Remember that on any world the wind eventually wears away the stone, because the stone can only crumble; the wind can change.

When we complain about the weather, we are, in reality, murmuring against God.

Stop it, and give yourself a chance.

Good things happen slowly and bad things happen fast. Those were comforting words, and they comfort me today.

There's nothing I want to relive—certainly not youth—and as for what's to come, I'm in no hurry. I

Good things happen slowly," said a doctor in the ICU months ago, "and bad things happen fast.

Good things happen slowly, said a doctor in the ICU months ago, and bad things happen fast. Those were comforting words, and they comfort me today. Recovery is a long, slow process. There are good days and bad days for both of us.

Tai Chi experts, like figures on a marvelous clock, who seem in their slow-motion way to be untelling time.

Sow the seeds of creation, and worry not about the results, for they shall blossom in the harvest of Life.

In our own lives the voice of God speaks slowly, a syllable at a time. Reaching the peak of years, dispelling some of our intimate illusions and learning how to spell the meaning of life-experiences backwards, some of us discover how the scattered syllables form a single phrase.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, And this too, shall pass away. How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.