Quotes About Patience

The longer the time horizon, the less the variability in average annual returns. Investors should not underestimate their time horizons. An investor who begins contributing to a retirement plan at age 25, and then, in retirement, draws on the accumulated capital until age 75 and beyond, would have an investment lifetime of 50 years or more. Our colleges, universities, and many other durable institutions have essentially unlimited time horizons.

The TIF is designed to be held for a lifetime.

At the outset, investing is an act of faith, a willingness to postpone present consumption and save for the future.

Beware the Wrath of a Patient Adversary.

Abraham Lincoln) liked to remind citizens that "Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

Hope is not a change method!

The first kind of problems are the ones life sends upon you to test you, to make you humble or make you longsuffering, or whatever you may need.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.

Thus it is that we may patiently pass through this life with its misery, hunger, cold, contempt, reproaches, and other troubles - content with this one thing: that our King [Jesus] will never leave us destitute, but will provide for our needs until, our warfare ended, we are called to triumph.

whenever the Lord holds us in suspense, and   delays his aid, he is not therefore asleep, but, on the contrary,   regulates all His works in such a manner that he does nothing but at   the proper time.

that it is better to limp in the way, than run with the greatest swiftness out of it.

They who take it amiss that the world was not sooner   created, may as well expostulate with God for not having made   innumerable worlds.

it is better to limp in the way, than run with the greatest swiftness out of it.

It is clear that bearing the cross patiently does not mean that we harden ourselves or do not feel any sorrow; according to the old notion of the Stoic philosophers that a greathearted man is someone who has laid off his humanity, and who is not touched by adversity and prosperity, and not even by joy and sorrow, but who acts like a cold rock.

Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord," (Psalm 27:14). He accuses himself of timidity, and repeating the same thing twice, confesses that he is ever and anon exposed to agitation. Still he is not only dissatisfied with himself for so feeling, but earnestly labors to correct it.

Always keep in mind what I seek to find in her, for I am none of those insane lovers who embrace also the vices of those with whom they are in love, where they are smitten at first sight with a fine figure. This only is the beauty that allures me: if she is chaste, if not too fussy or fastidious, if economical, if patient, if there is hope that she will be interested about my health.

But if Abram bore his continual wanderings patiently, our   fastidiousness is utterly inexcusable, when we murmur against God, if   he does not grant us a quiet nest.

We should always look to the Lord, that by His care we might be led to whatever lot in life He provides for us.

the anger   of God proceeds with a slow step to avenge itself, but that it   compensates for its tardiness by the severity of its punishment.

Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let us not despair of the smallness of our accomplishments.

when we gaze in unbounded admiration on that ineffable mercy of His, which with unwearied patience endures countless sins which are every moment being committed under His very eyes, or the call with which from no antecedent merits of ours, but by the free grace of His pity He receives us;

Put on, as God's chosen ones, compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, and patience.