Quotes About Patience

Good advice is a wise man's friend, of course; but sometimes it just flies on past, and all you can do is wave.

It made me think of Penelope waiting for Odysseus—Penelope at her loom, not missing a trick, lumpen suitors everywhere.

It's one thing to be sick of your own infirmities, and another to understand that the people you love most are sick of them also. You are very near then to being friendless in this world.

Waiting for inspiration to write is like standing at the airport waiting for a train.

Allah tests our patience and our fortitude. He tests out strength of faith. be patient and there will endless rewards for you, insha'Allah - Utaz Badr

The Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, said, When Allah loves a people, He tries them.

As if reading his mind, Jamal-al-Din said, 'To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.

The sweetest things in life were not necessarily what one strove for and grabbed. Instead, many many times the All-Merciful, the All-Generous would give His servants without being petitioned, without waiting to be asked.

Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take; The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head. Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour; The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower. Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain. God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.

They lingered over cups of ersatz coffee.

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But the Russians have oriental patience. They waited a decade for political recognition and they will wait a century to achieve the ultimate aim. A stalemate for a decade does not matter, for the machinery is always at work, always plodding on. They are convinced that their final victory is inevitable. The Russian people knew that all invasions from Napoleon to Hitler had come from the West.

Never make a decision when you need to pee.

first of all nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again

a thousand years without a bath.

It is dangerous to judge ability by short-term results.

As Steve Jobs said, "You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.

The greatest blessing you will ever bestow in your life you may never know. And you don't need to know. We don't have to do spectacular things. We just have to keep doing what God has called us to do. In a very real sense, that boils down to bringing people to the table, and trusting God to… bring in a harvest decades or generations later.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

He who wishes to be rich within a day, will be hanged within a year.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

When the fig-tree stood without fruit no one looked at it. Wishing by producing this fruit be praised by men, it was bent and broken by them.

art is never finished, only abandoned