Quotes about Patience

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

If you don't know what tomorrow holds, you need to know who holds tomorrow!

It's always too early to quit.

We called him Tortoise because he taught us.

For a moment, imagine the person you hope to marry. What do they look like? Are they funny, intelligent, kind? How do you hope they are living their life right now? Would it bother you if you knew they were hooking up each weekend or had five, ten, or fifteen different partners over the past several years? Or would it make you smile if you knew they were holding out for you? Why not live your life as you would want them to live theirs? Wait for the relationship.

Real improvement is of slow growth only.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

Soon is not as good as now.

When we ask God to move a mountain, God may give us a shovel.

de Chardin said, "Above all, trust in the slow work of God. We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay. We would like to skip the intermediate stages. We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown, something new. And yet, it is the law of all progress that it is made by passing through some stages of instability — and that it may take a very long time. Above all, trust in the slow work of God, our loving vine-dresser.

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