Quotes About Patience

Love, too, has to be learned.

In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange.

How does one become stronger? By deciding slowly; and by holding firmly to the decision once it is made. Everything else follows of itself.

Deeds need time, even after they are done, in order to be seen or heard.

Lightning and thunder require time, the light of the stars requires time, deeds require time even after they are done, before they can be seen and heard.

For others do I wait...for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come.

Slow is the experience of all deep fountains: long have they to wait until they know what has fallen into their depths.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

My thoughts', said the wanderer to his shadow, 'should show me where I stand, but they should not betray to me where I am going. I love ignorance of the future and do not want to perish of impatience and premature tasting of things promised.

Like tourists huffing and puffing to reach the peak we forget the view on the way up.

This however is my teaching: he who wishes one day to fly, must first learn standing and walking and running and climbing and dancing:- one does not fly into flying!

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Lighting and thunder require time; the light of the stars requires time; deeds, though done, still require time to be seen and heard.

And everywhere an indecent haste prevails, as though something would be missed if the young man of 23 were not 'finished', did not yet know the answer to the 'main question': which occupation? - A higher kind of man, if I may be forgiven for saying so, does not like 'occupations', precisely because he knows he has a calling... He has time, he takes his time, he does not even think of getting 'finished' - at thirty you are, in the sense of high culture, a beginner, a child.

It is precisely he who is becoming who cannot endure the state of becoming.

On account of those absolute and impatient ones, be not jealous, thou lover of truth! Never yet did truth cling to the arm of an absolute one.

The difficult we do immediately, the impossible takes a little longer.

You cannot always depend on prayers to be answered the way you want them answered but you can always depend on God. God, the loving Father often denies us those things which in the end would prove harmful to us. Every boy wants a revolver at age four, and no father yet has ever granted that request. Why should we think God is less wise? Someday we will thank God not only for what He gave us, but also for that which He refused.

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is timing. It wait on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.

As life goes on, they become not two compatible beings who have learned to live together through self-suppression and patience, but one new and richer being, fused in the fires of God's love and tempered of the best of both. One by one, the veils of life's mysteries have been lifted. The flesh, they found, was too precocious to reveal its own mystery; then came the mystery of the other's inner life, disclosed in the raising of young minds and hearts in the ways of God;

Patience is power. Patience is not an absenc of action; rather it is timing, it waits on the right time to act, for the right priciples and in the right way

Deferred joys purchased by sacrifice are always sweetest and most enduring.

It takes eternity to make a man despair.

He seeks us before we dream of seeking him; he knocks before we invite him in; he loves us before we respond.