Quotes About Patience

The wise wait for their moment, but never let it pass.

There was nothing to be gained by losing his temper. There was never anything to be gained by that.

All you can do is take each day as it comes. Try and do the best you can with what you're given. You won't always do the right thing, but you can try. And you can try to do the right thing next time. That, and stay alive.

Savor the little moments, son, that's my advice. They're what life is. All the little things that happen while you're waiting for something else.

It can be a fearsome weapon, patience. One that few men ever learn to use.

Live today. Pray today. Let the Lord take care of tomorrow, seeing as how he knows more about it than we do anyhow.

Happiness can be like a butterfly you chase after. Always one flutter of wings ahead of you, but then if you stop chasing what you think should make you happy, you can feel the warmth of the sunshine on your shoulders, and the fragrance of your favorite flower is in the air. That butterfly might even drift close enough to let you feel the flutter of its wings.

Aunt Love said no housework was ever wasted, that it had to be done sooner or later anyway, but Jocie noticed the sooner you did it the sooner you had to do it again.

The good Lord had miracles in his pocket but he hadn't sent one down for her.

She didn't know what the road in front of her held, but she know the one who paved those roads with hope. The Lord would show her the way. One step at a time. One day at a time. As long as she prayed believing.

A life of making isn't a series of shows, or projects, or productions, or things: it is an everyday practice. It is a practice of questions more than answers, of waiting to find what you need more often than knowing what you need to do. Waiting, like listening and meandering, is best when it is an active and not a passive state.

Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.

Anyone who believes the competitive spirit in America is dead has never been in a supermarket when the cashier opens another check-out line.

The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself; the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.

People with integrity expect to be believed. If not, they let time prove them right.

A watched pot never boils

We let our dreams take over. We stopped saying someday and started saying next year, next month, next week.

God is not here to be demanded of, begged from, or criticized. He hands out burdens to those who are strong enough to carry them, and I feel profoundly uncomfortable with the idea of lining up with the other invalids and asking for mine to be alleviated.

but it seemed too early for gossip, like going on vacation and buying a house on the first day.

She would wait, forever if necessary, for a man who saw the expanse of her, the

She would wait, forever if necessary, for a man who saw the expanse of her, the way her father had.

H)oping is a big part of homesteading. Hoping and trying again when what you hope for doesn't come.

It paid barely a living wage, but he stayed with it—gradually and in the end gratefully arriving at the point in life when you understand there are no great changes ahead.