Quotes About Patience

To instruct calls for energy, and to remain almost silent, but watchful and helpful, while students instruct themselves, calls for even greater energy. To see someone fall (which will teach him not to fall again) when a word from you would keep him on his feet but ignorant of an important danger, is one of the tasks of the teacher that calls for special energy, because holding in is more demanding than crying out.

If I had my way books would not be written in English but in an exceedingly difficult secret language.... This plan would have the advantage of scaring off all amateur authors, retired politicians, country doctors...who would not have the patience to learn the secret language.

We come to God in little steps, not in a leap.

For every ill beneath the sun, There is some remedy, or none Should there be one, resolve to find it; If not, submit, and never mind it. -Ancient West County wise saw or saying

At the end of oneself was the best place to discover the Lord at work.

He would have to trust God for that, for he was helpless to do anything about it himself. His grandfather had said that was always the best place to be. At the end of oneself was the best place to discover the Lord at work.

Sometimes it is better not to know. Sometimes when you do know you just fold up.

Stay a little while longer, and let everyone congratulate you - including the ones who clearly don't want to: in fact, especially the ones who clearly don't want to. You don't have to say anything but 'thank you

All you did was sit there, he said. Why are you so tired? I sat very diligently, she said.

Sungold blew impatiently and began to dig a hole with one foot. She booted his elbow with her toe and he stopped, but after a moment he lowered his head and blew again, harder, and she could feel him shifting his weight, considering if she might let him dig just a small hole.

Mathin had taught her patience, and she had known all of her life how to be stubborn.

There's always a nest time,' said the king, 'unfortunately. You just don't know what it's going to be about.

Balthazar was disappointed by all the walking, but he was accustomed to such disappointment. -Hellhound

When spring came I dug up the garden and planted it, and weeded it, and prayed over it, and fidgeted; and almost three years of lying fallow had agreed with it, because it produced radishes the size of onions, potatoes the size of melons, and melons the size of small sheep. The herb border ran wild, and the air smelled wonderful.

Let us not gallop to meet future difficulties," said Robin. "A walking pace is enough.

who could scarcely remember to put one foot in front of the other when she walked; with the sudden, brutal urgency of a long and terrible wait ended.

First rule: If your dog doesn't do what you want, it's your fault.

Stuff doesn't happen till you're ready for it. She laughed, and it was a real laugh. Only in theory. Tell me, what were your first cinnamon rolls like? And didn't the recipe look simple and pure and beautiful on the page? And the instructions your teacher gave you, before he left you to get on with it, were perfectly clear and covered everything?

I am not strong enough, she said. She had never said this aloud to anyone before—anyone but her bees. I know too little, and I do not learn fast enough. And there are not enough hours in the day. And the land has been bent away from true too far and for too long.

I could wallpaper a room with rejection letters.

life doesn't always give you what you ask for, but it always gives you what you need.

Be patient and live with the knowledge that all you are searching for is certain to come if you prepare for it and expect it.

And no matter what you are experiencing in your life right now, trust that all is good and unfolding in your best interests. It may not look pretty, but it is exactly what you need to learn for you to grow into the person you have been destined to become.

Življenje ti ne da vedno tistega, za kar prosiš, vedno pa ti da tisto, kar potrebuješ!