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Quotes About Patience

Life is short, the art long.
~ Hippocrates
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
~ Epictetus
God arranges everything for us, so that we need have no more fear or trouble and may be quite sure that all things will come right in the end.
~ Johanna Spyri, Heidi
Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel
I'm ready and open to meeting the person that hopefully I'll share my life with. It takes a long time to get to that place.
~ Aaron Tveit
There are times in our Christian life when we cannot see beyond the next step and we have to trust God.
~ Alistair Begg
Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame.
~ Benedict Cumberbatch
Be simple and always take the next step. You needn't see it in advance, but you can look back at it afterwards.There is no 'how' of life, one just does it.
~ Carl Jung
Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
~ Freya Stark
I know that you don't believe it, but indeed, life will bring you through. You will live it down in time. What you need now is fresh air, fresh air, fresh air!
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
The rest of the world cannot be expected to regulate its life by a clock which is always slow.
~ Georges Pompidou
Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.
~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
I get irritated, I get upset. Especially when I'm in a hurry. But I see it all as part of our training. To get irritated is to lose our way in life.
~ Haruki Murakami
Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Blessed are they who feel like pilgrims and strangers in this life, and whose best things are all to come!
~ J. C. Ryle
That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures.
~ J. G. Holland
The trials of life will not wait for us. They come at their own time, not caring much to inquire how ready we may be to meet them.
~ James Anthony Froude
The best thing you can learn from the worst times of your life is that it always gets better. It may take a month, a year, a decade, but it will get better if you leave yourself open to it.
~ Janis Ian
Life is short and progress is slow
~ Gabriel Lippmann
For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.
~ Joseph Brodsky
Nothing of great value in this life comes easily. The things of highest value sometimes come hard. The gold that has the greatest value lies deepest in the earth, as do the diamonds.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Yes, life can be rich down here. But never forget, the richest life is still to come.
~ Phil Callaway
And I was struck all at once how life was out there going through its regular courses, and I was suspended, waiting, caught in a terrible crevice between living my life and not living it.
~ Sue Monk Kidd