Quotes About Patience

Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared to wait trustfully and quietly on Him who has all things safely in His hands.

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.

There is no point in being annoyed with anyone — the way they enlarge one's understanding more than compensates for the irritation and inconvenience they cause.

Maybe Nils was right and it was meant to be like this. Maybe you had to go through just so much, and then you reached the place where you were supposed to be.

When I was 20, I thought I was 30 - but I was so far from it. When you're young, you want everything to happen now. As you mature, you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience.

Perfect moments don't turn into half-hours.

O flowers! the soul that faints or grieves New comfort from your lips receives; Sweet confidence and patient faith are hidden in your leaves.

The days are long but the years are short," some say, about the early years of child rearing

Just remember this, Emma -- not every Jell-O salad turns out perfect. But it can still taste real good.

Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand.

Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.

much as Flush tries to understand me when I tell him that barking and jumping may be unseasonable things.

He said he regretted to have been forced to keep them by him until now, through his ignorance of where he should send them. So there's the end. I cannot, of course, write again. God takes it all into His own hands, and I wait.

Anyway, one of the first things you learn in space is not to thrash. If you have nothing constructive to do, the most constructive thing you can do is often nothing at all. In a mindful sense, I mean. Thrashing is the thing that gets people killed. Not sitting still.

Women have more of that patience, as a class. That ain't because we're born with it, though. It's because we're schooled to it and taught early that if we don't have it we won't never win.

Silence is as good as an answer, angel.

He'll come back to you," David said. "Haven't you noticed we all do?

What cannot be cured must be endured, and Tristen excelled at enduring.

What can I say? We're slow.

There were times to rise to the bait, and times not to.

Fighting the snare only deepens the wound. One must lie in wait, hoarding strength until the hunter returns.