Quotes About Patience

A veces llego demasiado pronto, me adelanto. Y hay gente que se aferra a la vida más de lo esperado.

Every night, Liesel made her way down to the basement. She kept the book with her at all times. For hours, she wrote, attempting each night to complete ten pages of her life. There was so much to consider, so many things in danger of being left out. Just be patient, she told herself, and with the mounting pages, the strength of her writing fist grew.

Some people are born empty. All manner of good deeds and patience and loving kindness can't even begin to fill them up.

Festina lente. Make haste slowly.

If it no go so, it go near so. —Jamaican proverb

Living people wait and see because they fool themselves that they have time. Dead people see and wait.

The old saying is true enough. The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.

Even when they hadn't known what was best for them, God had known. He had seen them through the pain and brought them to this joy, and she was forever grateful.

Don't worry about tomorrow. Just do what God puts in front of you right now and leave the rest to Him.

I cried to her, Why did this have to happen? Why? I expected some plausible and complicated medical explanation. She shrugged and said gently, Because, Martha, it was just your turn.

Young humans can be impulsive. The trick is keeping them around long enough to become old humans.

One of the biggest mistakes we can make is to start grieving over things that haven't even happened yet.

God has a plan. He always does, but sometimes people forget and try to make their own, imperfect plans. People can only see a little way down the road. But He can see the whole trip.

God loves you. He wants you to be His child, not His avenger. You find the facts, but let Him reveal the truth. Because He's the only one who knows it. All of it.

To remember a day would take a day. To remember a year would take a year.

All rooms are waiting rooms. Your room is a waiting room. You are waiting, I am waiting. Everything is getting nearer to being over.

Tolstoy wrote, 'God knows the truth, but waits.

Time is his luxury, and he is prepared to spend any amount that is necessary to get a picture right, which is another paradox, since by nature LF is packed with nervous energy and still apt, for example, to dive into traffic and sprint down the road in pursuit of a taxi. 'All my patience', he notes, 'has gone into my work, leaving none for my life.

Eight years ago, I wouldn't have painted this subject I'm starting now: a clearing filled with grasses. It would have seemed too much of a jumble. I had to keep looking and drawing, and looking. Now, because of all that time I spent drawing these grasses, I know what I'm looking for.

Mental stamina is required too. All long-term projects require this ability to keep going after the first excitement, through periods of despondency.

Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.

Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

I guess one of the great agonies of life is that we are constantly trying to finish that which is unfinishable