Quotes About Patience

is true that one must put up with wrong, with a great deal of wrong. But no one need put up with wrong that he can remedy.

CHAPTER XXVI GIVE ME SIX MONTHS

Ah! that's just it. People always do seem to think it so terrible that a girl should have her own way in anything. She mustn't like any one at first; and then, when she does like some one, she must marry him directly she's bidden. I haven't much of my own way at present; but you see, when I'm married I shan't have it at all. You can't wonder that I shouldn't be in a hurry.

Who doubts that? How many very bad things are there that we do! But if we were to attempt to reform all our bad ways at once, we should never do any good thing. I am not strong enough to put the world straight, and I doubt if you are." Such

I shall wait so impatiently for your answer, so do pray write at once. I hear some people say that these sort of things are not so much thought of now as they were once, and that all manner of marriages are considered to be comme il faut. I do not want, you know, to make myself foolish by being too particular. Perhaps all these changes are bad, and I rather think they are; but if the world changes, one must change too; one can't go against the world.

that a man should force himself to endure anything that might be sent upon him, not only without outward grumbling, but also without grumbling inwardly.

But in such troubles nothing will give comfort. They must be borne, till the fire of misfortune burns itself out.

Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for a change we sink to something lower.

She continued writing up to 1856, when she was seventy-six years old,--and had at that time produced 114 volumes, of which the first was not written till she was fifty. Her career offers great encouragement to those who have not begun early in life, but are still ambitious to do something before they depart hence.

But I should never have had patience to sit all night upon that bench in the House of Commons. How men can do it! They mustn't read. They can't think because of the speaking. It doesn't do for them to talk. I don't believe they ever listen. It isn't in human nature to listen hour after hour to such platitudes. I believe they fall into a habit of half-wakeful sleeping, which carries them through the hours; but even that can't be pleasant

The case dragged itself on slowly, and little Anna Murray was a child of nine years old when at last the Earl was acquitted of the criminal charge which had been brought against him. During all this time he had been absent. Even had there been a wish to bring him personally into court, the law

Years are wanted to make a friendship, but days suffice for men and women to get married.

Your policy should be to keep your government together by a strong majority. After all, the making of new laws is too often but an unfortunate necessity laid on us by the impatience of the people. A lengthened period of quiet and therefore good government with a minimum of new laws would be the greatest benefit the country could receive.

Tutti i più ridicoli fantasticatori che nei loro nascondigli di geni incompresi fanno scoperte strabilianti e definitive, si precipitano su ogni movimento nuovo persuasi di poter spacciare le loro fanfaluche. D'altronde ogni collasso porta con sé disordine intellettuale e morale. Bisogna creare uomini sobri, pazienti, che non disperino dinanzi ai peggiori orrori e non si esaltino a ogni sciocchezza. Pessimismo dell'intelligenza, ottimismo della volontà.

Si la cuerda no fuera delgada, no tendría gracia caminar por ella

Para oír hay que callar

I'm not just ignoring you, I'm waiting to see if you'll put in the effort to talk to me.

Now that probably didn't happen right off the bat

lie. You're assuming that nothing you can do will change them." "But that's true," Lou countered. "I can't change them." "Quite right." "Then I don't understand your point." "That's because you surrendered too early," Yusuf smiled. "While

Has my watch stopped?" she wrote. "No. But its hands do not seem to be going around. Don't look at them. Think of something else—anything else; think of yesterday, a calm, ordinary, easy-flowing day, in spite of the nervous tension of waiting.

marriage is like two people locked up with one lesson to read, over and over, until the words become madness. DJ

To get angry is easy, to get angry with the right person, the right moment and for the right reason is difficult.

If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.

Even in adversity, nobility shines through, when a man endures repeated and severe misfortune with patience, not owing to insensibility but from generosity and greatness of soul.