253 quotes found
“Patience isn't tested when it is self-imposed and the duration is self-regulated. Patience is hardly tested when the outcome means little to you. However, when circumstances beyond your control for...”
“The acts of daily forbearance, the headache, or toothache, or heavy cold; the tiresome peculiarities of husband or wife, the broken glass...all of these sufferings, small as they are, if accepted l...”
“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”
“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
“Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and not...”
“Why is patience so important?""Because it makes us pay attention.”
“A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the belief that something hidden there will manifest its...”
“I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.”
“She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.”
“Waiting and hoping is a hard thing to do when you've already been waiting and hoping for almost as long as you can bear it.”
“Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.”
“Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait! Be still and allow the mud to settle.”
“He who can have patience can have what he will.”
“Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation.”
“Our patience will achieve more than our force.”
“Patience never wants Wonder to enter the house: because Wonder is a wretched guest. It uses all of you but is not careful with what is most fragile or irreplaceable. If it breaks you, it shrugs and...”
“And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.”
“All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them.”
“Patience is a fruit of the spirit that grows only under trial. It is useless to pray for patience. Well, actually I encourage you to pray for patience, but I'll tell you what you'll get TRIALS!”
“Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.”
