Quotes About Patience

was astonishing how life had a way of working out, even when everything looked so complicated and unpromising.

Heart lives in the future, so what if gloom pervades the present? All is fleeting, all will go; What is gone will then be pleasant.

fruto de mis años, marchitos antes de florecer (a Piotr Aleksandrovich Pletnev)

Pray on, then, all you postponed and disappointed and impoverished people of God; pray on and faint not. Pray on: for the prayer is far better than the answer.

Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.

I won't think about it now, there's nothing I can do about any of those things.

You need to add a new voice inside your head, one that says, "So what?" What if you don't get married by 30? So what? What if you haven't paid off your loans or debt by 35? So what? What if you're not a stand-out success by 28? So what? If you were to achieve everything you wanted in life by the age of 30, then what would you do for the next fifty years? You have time. You don't have to get to everything right now.

I figure I'll win the fight in twenty years or so anyways when I end up with a decent life and their unemployed and living at home.

Haste is a poor counselor

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness… Live, then and be happy beloved children of my heart and never forget that until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words – wait and hope.

If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.

God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.

Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.

Ah, said the jailer, do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight.

God is always the last resource.

For all evils there are two remedies—time and silence.

Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.

You were able to wait,' said Dantes, sighing. 'Your long labor gave you a constant occupation, and when you didn't have your work to distract you, you had your hopes to console you.

Patience is not my dominant virtue. --D'Artagnan

Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope.

A man is always in a hurry to be happy.

The sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and hope. ~Edmond Dantes

God may seem sometimes to forget for a while, whilst his justice reposes, but there always comes a moment when he remembers.

God is always the last resource. Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.