Quotes About Patience

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

Life teaches you that you need to make decisions in the right time - not too early, not too late.

If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.

Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves.

If you hold a bird too tightly, you'll crush its wings

The Christian life is one of faith, where we find ourselves routinely overdriving our headlights but knowing it's okay because God is in control and has a purpose behind it.

Ah! the clock is always slow; it is later than you think.

Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping.

When we worry we are saying, 'I know the way my life is supposed to go, and God's not getting it right'.

Life is too short for chess.

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

Being short and seeing a promoter take the stock up is very irritating. It's not worth it to have that much irritation in your life.

Do not make too much haste on one's road.

Be fond of hearing rather than of talking.

If I dismiss the ordinary—waiting for the special, the extreme, the extraordinary to happen - I may just miss my life.

Faith,Waiting in the heart of a seed, Promises a miracle of life which cannot prove at once.

To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.

It takes six months to get into shape and two weeks to get out of shape. Once you know this you can stop being angry about other things in life and only be angry about this.

Among life's regrets is all the time wasted being early for everything.

So, good news/bad news: good news that I'm progressing; bad news that life is short and art is long.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

But if you really want to learn about life, get a cat. The way I think people should relate to animals is with a cat. Because the world is his.

God is a place you will wait for the rest of your life.

Stay the course and see the beauty of life unfold for you.