Quotes About Patience

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.

Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.

You just stay the course, and do what it is that you do, and grow while you're doing it. Eventually it will either come full circle, or at least you'll go to bed at night happy.

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

While the interests of the business are served by the aphorism 'Don't just stand there. Do something!' the interests of investors are served by an approach that is its diametrical opposite: 'Don't do something. Just stand there!'

I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.

When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while, you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.

A seed knows how to wait... A seed is alive while it waits.

The universe can take quite a while to deliver.

Once in a while you can run very fast, but you cannot always go to the maximum.

I believe that some of us who were kept by God a long while before we found Him love Him better perhaps than we should have done if we had received Him directly, and we can preach better to others - we can speak more of His loving-kindness and tender mercy.

I'm glad you can't talk on your cells while the plane is in the air. That would drive me crazy.

Raising children uses every bit of your being - your heart, your time, your patience, your foresight, your intuition to protect them, and you have to use all of this while trying to figure out how to discipline them.

They tend to lay dormant for a while but often come back, and then the cheques come in!

Sometimes it helps to take a couple days off, as weird as that sounds. Every once in a while, I could just shoot so many shots. You can get so, like, intense with it all. It's like in life, right? We're all created for a sabbath day or for a day of rest. You sometimes need that in shooting, too.