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Quotes About Patience

Our conventional sense of self is an illusion; positive emotions, such as compassion and patience, are teachable skills; and the way we think directly influences our experience of the world.
~ Sam Harris
The sport and game of angling is the true means and cause that brings a man into a merry spirit, which makes a flowering age and a long one.
~ Juliana Berners
I hope we've got a lot of fairways and greens. We'll go from there.
~ Hal Sutton
Golf is a bloodless sport-if you don't count ulcers.
~ Dick Schaap
I guess I'll retire someday if I live that long.
~ Bobby Bowden
There is nothing less important in life than the score after one game of a two out of three game match.
~ John Kessel
Players need you to care, especially when they do not deserve it.
~ John Kessel
The hardest part was getting the window net hooked back. I didn't think I was ever going to get it hooked. I finally got it hooked. If I'd known that I wouldn't have tried to hook it.
~ Sterling Marlin
Practice works because practice gives us a chance to relax enough to make smart choices.
~ Seth Godin
A man tends to over-estimate what he can do in one year...and under-estimate what he can do in five.
~ Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom
player: Can I reach it with a five iron? caddie: Eventually.
~ John Adams
Enduring means accepting. Accepting things as they are and not as you would wish them to be, and then looking ahead, not behind.
~ Rafael Nadal
He who has the fastest cart never has a bad lie.
~ Anonymous
My golf has really improved even though my score hasn't. I'm missing the ball much closer now.
~ Richard Bull
Golf is a good preoccupation but as the meaning of life ... it lacks a few things.
~ Scotty Brown
What a terrible round. I only hit two good balls all day and that was when I stepped on a rake in a bunker.
~ Lee Trevino
Our body is not made of iron. Our strength is not that of stone. Live and hope in the Lord, and let your service be according to reason.
~ Clare of Assisi
I know you feel worn and tired. I know you're tired of failing. Rest, but don't stop. You can do this. You got this. Not because you're strong, but because He's your strength.
~ Yasmin Mogahed
Patience, prayer and silence-these are what give strength to the soul.
~ Mary Faustina Kowalska
Battles are not won by strength alone!
~ Zhuge Liang
Patience is the strength of the weak, impatience is the weakness of the strong.
~ Immanuel Kant
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
~ J.R.R. Tolkien
The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.
~ John Piper
Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don't have far to go, either.
~ Ivan Turgenev