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Patience Quotes
"Without delayed gratification, there is no endurance."
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"Walking to success is better than sprinting to failure."
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"The enemy is the necessary condition for practicing patience."
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"Major improvements don't happen over night. Their are many moments inching towards improvement. The difference between those who make major improvements in their lives are the ones who embrace patience and wait through the darkness as long as it takes."
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"The spider's web: She finds an innocuous corner in which to spin her web. The longer the web takes, the more fabulous its construction. She has no need to chase. She sits quietly, her patience a consummate force; she waits for her prey to come to her on their own, and then she ensnares them, injects them with venom, rendering them unable to escape. Spiders " so needed and yet so misunderstood."
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"Patience doesn't mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that's unfolding, rather than ripping open a budding flower or demanding a caterpillar hurry up and get that chrysalis stage over with."
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"I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."
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"Don't be afraid to go slow, only be afraid of standing still."
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"Don't be in a hurry to grasp everything. The mystery of life unfolds at its own pace."
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"If you fish without proper bait, you will only catch disappointment."
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"Keep calm when things don't go according to your expectations! Beautiful things always meet friction!"
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"There might not be a lot of people who can understand you and the way you think, don't lose your temper and don't get sad, because you are destined to mark a new path."
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"When expectations delay for too long, doubt draw nearer in haste and patience goes farther."
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"She would only let you know her, little by little ~ never giving too much away but willing to share the small parts that make up her life, she falls slowly like that ~ love isn't a maybe thing in her eyes & her heart is the prize, she knows her worth and she will withstand the wait."
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"My master wishes to see you," said the mounted man."When the planting's done," I said."Lord Barton is unaccustomed to waiting.""Then he should rejoice, for he'll learn something new today." I went back to the garden. Soon the servant left."
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"Nurture a tree today, and it will provide you fruit tomorrow."
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"Be patient in life, knowing that there is a real possibility that the desired outcome could happen without your direct involvement."
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"It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the echo."
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"If you chase a butterfly, it will escape; if you feed it, it will come."
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"When people wind you up, just remind them what happens to a piece of elastic."
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"I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient."
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"Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack."
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