Quotes about Patience

Deferred joys purchased by sacrifice are always sweetest and most enduring.

It takes eternity to make a man despair.

He seeks us before we dream of seeking him; he knocks before we invite him in; he loves us before we respond.

Every sorrow is really the "Shade of His Hand outstretched caressingly."

The Divine Savior never said to His Apostles: "Be good and you will not suffer" but He did say: "In this world you shall have tribulation."

Mama grizzlies mate later than other bears. They have two cubs instead of four. They wait four years - about twice as long as other bears - between having cubs. And after they're pregnant, if winter is hard or their health is not good or the food supply is uncertain, they re-absorb the embryo into their body.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

I wish I had more patience.

If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?

Who shall resist Anti-Christ when he comes if we show such patience towards the vices and crimes of his precursors? By such leniency, we encourage kings to become tyrants and tempt them to withdraw every privilege and all jurisdiction from the Churches.

I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.