Quotes about Patience

We all know that it's no good simply telling people to love one another. One more exhortation to love, to patience, to forgiveness, may remind us of our duty. But as long as we think of it as duty we aren't very likely to do it. The point of 1 Corinthians 13 is that love is not our duty; it is our destiny.

You have no idea when or how God will answer your prayers, but don't stop praying.

In every situation and circumstance of your life, God is always doing a thousand different things that you cannot see and you do not know.

As a leader, one must sometimes take actions that are unpopular, or whose results will not be known for years to come.

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did. Even as a student, I saw many young men who had great natural ability, but who did not have the self-discipline and patience to build on their endowment.

A leader must also tend his garden; he, too, plants seeds, and then watches, cultivates, and harvests the result.

Let nothing trouble you let nothing worry you everything passes away expect God God alone is sufficient

I wasn't in a hurry. I never have to be in any particular place at any particular time. Let time watch me, not me it.

Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery.

You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.

I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.

Culturally, one of the best arguments we can make is, wait and see.