Quotes about Patience

Destiny, with its mysterious and fatal patience, was slowly bringing these two beings near each other, fully charged and all languishing with the stormy electricities of passion.

Is it better to shout and thereby hasten the end, or to keep silent and gain thereby a slower death?

He understands that that impatience to speak is also an implacable uninterest in listening

Don't worry about what you don't have if you do have faith!

Your most vauluable asset can be your willingness to persist longer than anyone else.

Successful people are those who are willing to delay gratification and make sacrifices in the short term so that they can enjoy far greater rewards in the long term.

There is an old saying that "by the yard it's hard; but inch by inch, anything's a cinch!

Practice one virtue for a period of two weeks, then three weeks, then one virtue per month.

I told you, in my last, that He sometimes permits bodily diseases to cure the distempers of the soul. Have courage then: make a virtue of necessity: ask of GOD, not deliverance from your pains, but strength to bear resolutely, for the love of Him, all that He should please, and as long as He shall please.

But as a wise and great teacher once explained so patiently, all good stories - stories that touch your soul, stories that change your nature, stories that cause you to become a better person from their telling-these stories always contain truth.

Life will not always be so hard and cruel. Our difficulties are but a moment.

The book of Nature had waited more than a millennium for a reader.