patience quotes

You may never get to that perfect world that you’re waiting for where everything’s going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

I love dresses, and I’ve definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

Don’t complain. The Israelites wasted forty years murmuring and complaining in the wilderness, when they could have just obeyed God and entered into their Promised Land.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

The human body is strange and flawed and unpredictable. The human body has many secrets, and it does not divulge them to anyone, except those who have learned to wait.

God always has patience.

I know a dramatic role is going to happen, but you just got to be patient, you know? It’s going to happen when it’s supposed to happen. I’m not rushing it. I’m not trying to make it happen tomorrow.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

God is patient with us to become the God’s children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

All great achievements require time.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

I’m kind of a big kettle. It takes time to get boiled, but then I’m always hot.

The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.

It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

Genius is patience.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

The universe can take quite a while to deliver.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.

If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the ‚right‘ thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It’s like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.

If I spent all my time criticising myself, I wouldn’t be able to function. There are actors who theorise till the cows come home. I haven’t the patience for them. It’s maybe shallow, but that’s why I’ll never be part of the acting set.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

This is me, a sinner on whom the Lord has turned his gaze. And this is what I said when they asked me if I would accept my election as pontiff. I am a sinner, but I trust in the infinite mercy and patience of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I accept in a spirit of penance.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and they’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

I like playing. I wouldn’t be a good coach. I don’t have the patience to be a coach.

It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

The longer a man’s fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

If you’re holding out for universal popularity, I’m afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.