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Patience Quotes


"The horses have stoppedtheir clippity-clop,but feet are too slowfor where I must go.So here I shall stayuntil light of daywhen clippity-clopgets my team underway."


"Patience triumphs over everything."


"Nurture a tree today, and it will provide you fruit tomorrow."


"PATIENCE is the antidote to anger, a way to learn to love and care for whatever we meet on the path."



"It is not a vice or a show of weakness when you live by the principle of delay gratification."


"Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them."


"Some patient dogs had waited a long time for the fatest bone to come, but the impatient had gone to scavenge for the little it could see."


"If you wait, you can have what you want."


"Patience is real self-mastery."


"If a train is two minutes late in leaving, one will become impatient, 'when will the train leave, when will it leave?' This world is not worth getting impatient restless about."



"Don't lose heart if it's very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can in the beginning do as he wishes."


"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."


"You're frustrated because you keep waiting for the blooming of flowers of which you have yet to sow the seeds."


"Waiting for anyone is a cause for a tremendously bad life ahead. When the electricity is gone and you wait for it, that is considered as artadhyan (mournful meditation). Twenty years worth of effort gets washed away in waiting for half an hour. In such situations, you simply have to take an adjustment."


"If you fish without proper bait, you will only catch disappointment."


"When expectations delay for too long, doubt draw nearer in haste and patience goes farther."


"Don't be in a hurry. Everything arise in the due time."


"Chew off a little every day, because it's hard to swallow a whole pie at once."


"He'd seen when she began to panic, but he hadn't offered comfort like other Doms or changed his plans. He'd just waited her out. She could hate him a little for that."



"Patience is underscored with forgiveness."


"Have patience or be a patient. Have patience in preparatory moments or be a patient after preparatory moments."


"Don't be in a hurry in life. The sacred-time determines the due events."



"If something doesn't work exactly right, or maybe needs some special treatment, you don't just throw it away. Everything can't be fully operational all the time. Sometimes, we need to have the patience to give something the little nudge it needs."


"Walking to success is better than sprinting to failure."


"Wait and see the steps you should or should not have taken, and you shall understand patience and impatience better!"


"Be patient in affliction."
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