Quotes About Patience

This is the way of the weak; quiet and fair.

The greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die.

Het zou handig zijn wanneer je boeken koopt dat je de tijd om ze te lezen erbij kon kopen

If you give an ant infinite time, it can move a mountain all by itself.

Persistence is useful, but there's no point in being an idiot about it.

My optimism is like an old cat that likes to disappear for days, but I always expect it to return.

Things that will someday work out well start out well. Things that will never work start out bad and stay that way.

You need to control the order and timing of things to be happy. It's important to look at happiness in terms of timing because timing is easier to control than resources.

I understand that it takes patience, but there are also positive signs. H. U. von Balthasar, the theologian who probably has the greatest influence in the Catholic world for the moment, has handed down a very positive verdict on my book. Likewise, K. Lehmann, who is the theologian of the German Bishops' Conference. So I think that your thinking will gradually prevail, even if there is resistance and difficulties for the moment.

Loving difficult people will refine us. Perhaps only in heaven will our love be so perfected that we can actually like these people, too. St. Augustine spoke of a man who, on earth, had chronic gas problems; in heaven, his flatulence became perfect music.

The Lord never gets tired of forgiving us. It is we who get tired of asking for forgiveness.

God tests us by putting us in situations that invite us to trust him (Gen 22:1).

He spoke so slowly, cobwebs could have formed between his words.

I don't have to beat you. I don't have to beat you, motherfucker. I just have to keep you here... until Jean shows up.

Sometimes, the hardest thing was doing nothing.

Let others wage war. You, lucky Austria, shall marry.

Have a little faith in me, Volger. I have great faith, tempered with vast annoyance.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

It's just been a long week, that's all. It's monday night, Jess. My point exactly.

Being an author sucks, doesn't it? It's like telling a joke and nobody laughs for two years.

Sooner or later usually means too late

Fine. Seer knows best, even if he is nuts. Maybe I can stand to wait a few more... whoa. What the hell happened to my car? -Melissa

And it was pretty clear that no prince was showing up, or at least that he was really late.

By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower. —Rabindranath Tagore, "Stray Birds