Quotes About Patience

For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it.

The God knows when to smile.

Not yet do you feel it. Wait for the future.

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

And whatso man they call Happy, believe not ere the last day fall!

Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.

Any man of good sense should never have his children taught to be unusually clever.

Olimpljanin Div je svugde gospodar. A bogovi daju što ne sluti niko; kad tvrdo se nadaš, nada te izda; gde nade i nema, bog pomaže i tu. I ovo se dogodi tako.

anger joined with thine age, is not wisdom.

But you will bear your sickness more easily both with quiet, and with a noble temper, for it is necessary for mortals to suffer misery.

To show too much joy in a place such as this would be unseemly but, as he padded toward her, his tail was extended in a manner which would make wagging possible should all go as expected.

Oh, Gram. Don't you think falling in love in one week is about the silliest thing you've ever heard? Not that I'm falling in love, mind you. That's so...so...Harlequin.

If you want it to be as perfect as it can be, then you have to learn to ride the pause. Stay in the moment.

Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.

Never get mixed up in a Welsh wrangle. It doesn't end in blows like an Irish one, but goes on forever.

Faster... Faster... it'll stop all right when the time comes...

A hundred days wasted out of two years and a bit ... a day when you were not in my heart; not a day's coldness mistrust or disappointment. Never that.

But I had no patience with this convent chatter. I had felt the brush take life in my hand that afternoon; I had had my finger in the great, succulent pie of creation. I was a man of the Renaissance that evening- of Browning's renaissance. I, who had walked the streets of Rome in Genoa velvet and had seen the stars through Galileo's tube, spurned the friars, with their dusty tomes, and their sunken, jealous eyes and their crabbed hair-splitting speech.

It was not her way to make a conspicuous entry into anyone's life, but towards the end of that week Sebastian said rather sourly: "You and mummy seem very thick," and I realized that in fact I was being drawn into intimacy by swift, imperceptible stages, for she was impatient of any human relationship that fell short of it.

Oh, I shouldn't try to teach them anything, not just yet, anyway. Just keep them quiet.

Lady Marchmain,10 no I am not on her side; but God is, who suffers fools gladly;

But I had no patience with this convent chatter. I had felt the brush take life in my hand that afternoon... I was a man of the Renaissance that evening - of Browning's renaissance. I, who had walked the streets of Rome in Genoa velvet and had seen the stars through Galileo's tube... You'll fall in love, I said. Oh, pray not.

There should be a drug for soldiers, Guy thought, to put them to sleep until they were needed. They should repose among the briar like the knights of the Sleeping Beauty; they should be laid away in their boxes in the nursery cupboard. This unvarying cycle of excitement and disappointment rubbed them bare of paint and exposed the lead beneath.

There was one insect which buzzed in a particular manner. Listen, said Mr Bain one day, that is most interesting. It is what we call the 'six o'clock beetle', because he always makes that noise at exactly six o'clock. But it is now quarter past four. Yes, that is what is so interesting. At one time and another in the country I heard the six o'clock beetle at every hour of the day and night.