Quotes about Patience

To holiness, in accepting willingly whatsoever is sent by the Divine Providence

Someone despises me. That's their problem. Mine: not to do or say anything despicable. Someone hates me. Their problem. Mine: to be patient and cheerful with everyone, including them. Ready to show them their mistake. Not spitefully, or to show off my own self-control, but in an honest, upright way.

All men are made one for another: either then teach them better, or bear with them.

How to act: Never under compulsion, out of selfishness, without forethought, with misgivings. Don't gussy up your thoughts. No surplus words or unnecessary actions. Let the spirit in you represent a man, an adult, a citizen, a Roman, a ruler. Taking up his post like a soldier and patiently awaiting his recall from life. Needing no oath or witness. Cheerfulness. Without requiring other people's help. Or serenity supplied by others. To stand up straight—not straightened.

God give me patience to reconcile with what I am not able to change. Give me strength to change what I can. And give me wisdom to distinguish one from another.

Is anything wrong, dear? the old joke went. No, why? You moved. Just don't move.

Don't cry anymore, she tells herself. Just do one thing at a time. Get from hour to hour and day to day like a frog jumping on lily pads.

I wish I knew what You were up to. But whatever it is, help me to get through it, please. Though maybe it's not Your doing; I don't believe for an instant that what's going on out there is what You meant. I have enough daily bread, so I won't waste time on that. It isn't the main problem. The problem is getting it down without choking on it.

Becka had a lot of these control-yourself techniques. I tried to practise them. They worked some of the time.

You must observe the risings of the Sun and the changings of the Moon, because to everything there is a season.

Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.

it is better to journey than to arrive, as long as we journey in firm faith and for selfless ends.