Quotes About Patience

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.

Relationships are supposed to mature. This maturing means growth and improvement, not the constant buzz of the initial rush.

A wise man who loves the peaches at home does not want to shake any other trees.

We are all living along the beach in our miserable little grass huts, and a great tsunami, a huge tidal wave of joy, is heading toward us. Our task is not that of trying to get the tidal wave to come. We cannot make it come any faster, and we most certainly cannot get it to slow down. We declare that it is coming—as the children say, ready or not—and that preparation matters a great deal.

I have wanted to "make books" since around the sixth grade, and I published my first book when I was in my late thirties. My point is that the time in between was not wasted—submarine service, marriage, college, bringing up three kids, starting a school for them, and so forth. This kind of life experience is not distracting you from your appointed task of writing. It is, rather, the roundabout blessing of giving you something to say.

God picks us up where we are, not where we should have been

Be at peace with being lousy for a while. Chesterton once said that anything worth doing was worth doing badly. He was right. Only an insufferable egoist expects to be brilliant first time out.

Whenever you look in front and see a lot of people ahead of you, take time to look at the long queue behind you. Let us live a life of contentment.

You may not succeed in one day, but one day you will succeed!

A Chinese proverb goes: "We do not live for a hundred years but worry enough for a thousand" (Char, 1970, p. 15).

The self-healing power of the body is often overlooked because it is rarely given a chance to act in a world that expects the quick fix.

We cannot count on God to arrange what happens in our lives in ways that will make us feel good.We can, however, count on God to patiently remove all the obstacles to our enjoyment of Him. He is committed to our joy, and we can depend on Him to give us enough of a taste of that joy and enough hope that the best is still ahead to keep us going in spite of how much pain continues to plague our hearts.

Do not condemn the man that cannot think or act as fast as you can, because there was a time when you could not do things as well as you can today.

Be patient, slow down and listen to your internal clock and rhythm. There's no reason to race through life. Moments count. Enjoy and cherish each encounter and relationship.

What we sometimes see as annoying, incessant questions from a child may be a plea for recognition. Maybe they do not need an answer as much as attention.

Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don't count.

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.

You'll get mixed up, of course, as you already know. You'll get mixed up with many strange birds as you go. So be sure when you step. Step with care and great tact and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act. Just never forget to be dexterous and deft. And never mix up your right foot with your left.

Everything stinks till it's finished.

The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day.

Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting.

You can get so confused that you'll start in to race down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space, headed, I fear, toward a most useless place. The Waiting Place...

Are we acting like a couple? Im just trying to get it straight. Cause Im over here convinced that its too early for mistakes.