Quotes About Patience

It's one of the best parts of growing up and growing older, I think, that feeling that you'll just get through one day, and then the next, that a week from Saturday will take care of itself. I couldn't do that when I was younger. I don't know how much of this knowledge grows out of being female and having lived through layers of serial, often contradictory, lives.

stayed because I thought things would get better, or at least not worse.

This was a little joke of John's; he used to say that a regular course of the Birtwick horseballs would cure almost any vicious horse; these balls, he said, were made up of patience and gentleness, firmness and petting, one pound of each to be mixed up with half a pint of common sense, and given to the horse every day.

Do your best, And leave the rest, 'Twill all come right Some day or night.

I never felt more like kicking, but of course I could not kick such a good master, and so in time I got used to everything...

a bad-tempered man will never make a good-tempered horse.

All you can do is keep waiting for your time. There is no use protesting. If you have cruel owners, it's your bad luck. I wish I could die now. Only that can put an end to all my miseries.

But, God knows best, I concluded.

we shouldn't always have what we want: it spoils the best of us, doesn't it?

What can't be cured must be endured," said I

Two years hence you will be as calm as I am now, - and far, far happier, I trust, for you are a man and free to act as you please

nothing was seen or heard of Mr. Weston; until, at last, I gave up hoping, for even my heart acknowledged it was all in vain. But still, I would think of him: I would cherish his image in my mind; and treasure every word, look, and gesture that my memory could retain;

Patience, Firmness, and Perseverance were my only weapons; and these I resolved to use to the utmost.

When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone: there are many, many other things to be considered. Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them . . . .

When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone: there are many, many other things to be considered.  Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them;

Patience, Firmness, and Perseverance were my only weapons; and these I resolved to use to the utmost. I determined always strictly to fulfil the threats and promises I made; and, to that end, I must be cautious to threaten and promise nothing that I could not perform.

governess was not in yet; then

Minden igaz történetnek van valami tanulsága, ámbár némelyikben nehéz meglelni e kincset, s ha megleljük is, gyakran oly csekélynek bizonyul, hogy a száraz, összezsugorodott bél nem kárpótol bennünket a dió feltörésének fáradságos munkájáért.

My life seems too fast now, so obstructions bother me less than they once did. I am no longer in a hurry to see what is around the next bend. I find myself wanting to backferry, to hover midstream, suspended. If I could do that, I might avoid many things: harsh words, foolish decisions, moments of inattention, regrets that wash over me, like water. (196)

Paper is more patient than man.

Chins up, stick it out, better times will come.

Jews and Christians wait, the whole world waits,and there are many who wait for death

It's not imagination on my part when I say that to look up at the sky, the clouds, the moon, and the stars make me calm and patient. It's a better medicine than either valerian or bromine; Mother nature makes me humble and prepared to face every blow courageously.

El papel es más paciente que los hombres.