Quotes about Patience

It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of discernment, the hammer of wisdom, the sandpaper of patience. But then when I grew up I found that life handed you these rusty bent old tools - friendships, prayer, conscience, honesty - and said 'do the best you can with these, they will have to do'. And mostly, against all odds, they do.

Take twice as long to eat half as much.

Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes?

Western wind, when will thou blow, The small rain down can rain? Christ, if my love were in my arms And I in my bed again!

If we humble ourselves before the Lord, He will lift us up... He will. That's His promise.

Even if my fellow man has proven faithless time after time, I can at least retain a hope that he will improve, pray for him, and think kindly without frustration and disappointment.

Not yet do you feel it. Wait for the future.

And whatso man they call Happy, believe not ere the last day fall!

Sometimes life makes you older than your age.

He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock.

She had an air of seeming to wait, as if for a man to get through with something more important than herself, a battle or an operation, during which he must not be hurried or interfered with. When the man had finished she would be waiting, without fret or impatience, somewhere on a highstool, turning the pages of a newspaper.

My own rule is to let everything alone.