Quotes About Patience

Ben is used to my all talk, no action ways, but it took a long time to bank all that goodwill.

There is a story about a prisoner at Alcatraz who spent his nights in solitary confinement dropping a button on the floor then trying to find it again in the dark. Each night, in this manner, he passed the hours until dawn. I do not have a button. In all other respects, my nights are the same.

Everything is going to be fine." I hate it when people say that, people who have absolutely no idea of what's coming next. They turn you into an idiot for even asking.

Jacobsen once jestingly compared himself to the sloth (det beromte Dovendyr Ai-ar) which needed two years to climb to the top o f a tree. It was necessary for him to withdraw absolutely from the world and to retire, as it were, within the character he wished to portray before he could set pen to paper. Hanna Astrup Larsen (Introduction to Marie Grubbe, New York 1917)

But you will say now, has faith a warrant to believe deliverance, that it shall be fully delivered? I dare not say so, but it may act upon it, to believe that God will make it good in his own way. Perhaps you have not done as much, and so because of that, this promise is not fulfilled to you.

There is a compound of grace in contentment: there is faith, and there is humility, and love, and there is patience, and there is wisdom, and there is hope; almost all graces are compounded. [...] In one action that you do you may exercise one grace especially, but in contentment you exercise a great many graces at once.

For where belief dwells, the spider may not stir, neither by day nor by night.

I will walk by faith, even when I cannot see.

The next day I called my neighbouring farmers to say I was going to have a coronary, and they all had the same piece of advice. I had to accept whatever happens, because that's farming. They also said I had to be patient, which is not possible. I can't be patient. It's not in my DNA. It's a bit like telling Nicholas Witchell he has to be a Moroccan cage fighter.

Stick to breathing. It's the only thing you're any good at.

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

God grant that this war not last as long as we are able to endure it

You have to wait for a big star to come in and generate interest on a project, and now that has become me, which is an amazing blessing.

Quiet customers get served first.

With the inexorable slowness of a tortoise orgasm

There's not a lot of room anymore for what I call 'made-up' drama. The drama comes from real places now - marriage takes work and focus, the kid stuff takes patience and commitment. And if you don't grow as people and as a couple, within all of that, then you've got some real drama.

Look with great forgiveness upon the weakness of others.

I'm more of a dog person. But I admire cats and their ability to take so much while giving so little.

He whispered against my mouth. "Wait for me, Aura.

Jesus loves you." "Then how come he never calls?

Unwilling to play the hand that is dealt [to] him, the borderline keeps folding every time, losing his ante, waiting to be dealt four aces. If he cannot be assured of winning, he won't play out the hand. Improvement comes when he learns to accept the hand for what it is, and recognize that, skillfully played, he can still win.

Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their own way, but we, poor mortals in our present state, would probably find them precious slow company.

But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand.

She said he acted like any small chore or favor was the biggest burden in the world.