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Patience Quotes
"Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second."
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"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."
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"It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet."
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"It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness."
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"One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time."
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"Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous."
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"Until the stone becomes soft, it cannot attach itself to the wall."
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"Life's most rewarding forms of being: Being patient, and, being yourself."
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"If you chase a butterfly, it will escape; if you feed it, it will come."
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"So it's been a slow process and it's taken some patience. That's why patients are called patients I think - patience is required."
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"I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end."
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"Without delayed gratification, there is no endurance."
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"Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear."
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"He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience."
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"I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television."
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"But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last."
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"It takes time to figure it out.Give yourself sometime.It took Abraham 100yrs."
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"I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them."
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"Chew off a little every day, because it's hard to swallow a whole pie at once."
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"Have patience or be a patient. Have patience in preparatory moments or be a patient after preparatory moments."
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"Don't be afraid to go slow, only be afraid of standing still."
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"The best is always worth waiting for. And once you taste it, no other taste will do."
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"For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently."
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"To wait is to wisely resign myself to the fact that my 'timetable' is too often a 'table' with two legs that won't stand up no matter how much 'time' I give it."
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"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."
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"You're frustrated because you keep waiting for the blooming of flowers of which you have yet to sow the seeds."
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