Quotes about Patience

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.

Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.

Success each day should be judged by the seeds sown, not the harvest reaped.

Success is like pumping an old well handle. You have to pump a very long time before you get water. But don't give up or you will have to start all over again.

Success is achieved in inches, not miles.

Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.

Christ is never in haste: least of all, on His errands of love. And He is never in haste, because He is always sure.

There is ever the prior question of plain duty, with which nothing else, however tempting or promising of success, can come into conflict; and such seasons may be only those when our faith and patience are put on trial, so as to bring it clearly before us, whether or not, quite irrespective of all else, we are content to leave everything in the hands of God.

But when it comes to most skills, failure is the only way to become better at something. Knitting teaches you that. You may have to unwind all of your stitches and start anew. That doesn't mean you've wasted your time. You learn from every stitch, even those that don't amount to anything. All writers should be made to knit a hat before they start writing a novel. It would help with understanding the importance of revision, and that the process is what can bring you the most

Hard times make for simple minds.

To find someone, it was necessary to follow in the way that the angels who follow men's lives on earth are said to do, charting each trespass without judgment, for judgment is never ours to give.

Keep the light out, have faith, trust in what you feel, not in what you see. Leave the matches at home. Leave it be.