Quotes About Patience

I have been laid up with intentional flu.

After the blaze burns out, keep watching and wait to hear what the ashes are saying.

A fishing pole is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool on the other

There are minds so impatient of inferiority, that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause.

Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.

Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which never can return.

Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

With these [Love, Patience, Faith] celestial Wisdom calms the mind,And makes the happiness she does not find.

The future is purchased by the present.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.

To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content. No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of the spring: no man can, at the same time, fill his cup from the source and from the mouth of the Nile.

And so I betake myself to that course, which is almost as much as to see myself go into my grave; for which, and all the discomforts that will accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me!

I find my wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up; but I will not, for my content-sake, give it.

You can be bored with anything if you try hard enough.

Presumptuous bastard,' Tak said. 'Sunset? He might at least wait and see if there's a tomorrow morning.

The mark of the truly civilized is their (truly baffling to the likes of you and me) patience with what truly baffles.

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.

The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.

I will bear any thing you can inflict upon me with Patience, even to the laying down of my Life, to shew my Obedience to you in other Cases; but I cannot be patient, I cannot be passive, when my Virtue is at Stake!

When a new book is published, read an old one.

Whenever I find myself in the cellar of affliction, I always look about for the wine.