Quotes About Patience

The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.

I'm an imperfect person. I've let anger, jealousy, all the emotions, get the best of me. If I go into books, word by word, little by little, they help re-center and re-ground me and put me on the right path. Life is a journey. I'm very focused on the things I do and have learned not to be pressured.

The word 'grace' means after we must have done everything humanly possible, we must leave the issue with God. That is grace.

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.

Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.

If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes.

If I were to try to describe the way in which I write, the only word I would use without qualification is 'slowly.'

Being a wife and mother are the single most important roles in my life. They take a lot of work, a lot of patience, and help from God and His Word, but if you put in the effort, it's more fulfilling than anything on earth.

People don't really believe in words. Or rather, people believe in words only for a stretch of time. Then they start to look for action.

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

The mother cannot expect her daughter to understand the mysteries of housekeeping without education. She should instruct them patiently, lovingly, and make the work as agreeable as she can by her cheerful countenance and encouraging words of approval. If they fail once, twice, or thrice, censure not.

Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions, not your words.

I told him that my own opinion was that the time now and the method now to deal with Russia was to keep our mouths shut and let our actions speak for words.

I have found in work that you only get back what you put into it, but it does come back gift-wrapped.

You can't control injuries, but you can control how hard you work to come back.

Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.

It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that's the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.

We have much work ahead, to stand still.

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter - for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.

Everything happens for a reason, if you work hard for it.

When you work hard, you are not going to be happy the whole time, you are going to have frustration, bad times in life.

I learned you're going to have to start from the ground up, and honestly, it starts with hard work, hard work in the offseason, and no shortcuts really.

I work hard and I'm humble.