Patience Quotes

A distant love that waits to be together, is by far the most difficult relationship. It's like lighting a candle, and adoring the long flame and robust glow. Until time sets in like wax, overflowing deeper and deeper into the wick, leaving a sparse flame struggling to live. This is where most distant relationships fade, with the wax smothering the flame. This kind of relationship takes patience, hope, unconditional love, trust and strength, all centered around God. If the flame endures to the end, and the two come together, only then will it feel as if the candle was tipped and all the wax came pouring out, when the flame is revived, long and glowing again.

~ Anthony Liccione

Let nothing disturb you, nothing frighten you, all things are passing, God is unchanging. Patience gains all; nothing is lacking to those who have God: God alone is sufficient.

~ Teresa Of Ávila

I may have mentioned patience wasn't one of my virtues. Actually, I didn't have many virtues but patience definitely wasn't one of them.

~ Kristen Ashley

But gardening is none of that, really. Strip away the gadgets and the techniques, the books and the magazines and the soil test kits, and what you're left with, at the end of the day, is this: a stretch of freshly turned dirt, a handful of seeds scratched into the surface, and a marker to remember where they went. It is at the same time an incredibly brave and an incredibly simple thing to do, entrusting your seeds to the earth and waiting for them to rise up out of the ground to meet you.

~ Amy Stewart

A lot of impulsive mistakes are made by people who simply aren’t willing to stay bored a little longer.

~ Paul Aurandt Jr.

Peace is a product of both patience and persistence.

~ Camron Wright

Nothing is so much coveted by a young man as the reputation of being a genius; and many seem to feel that the want of patience for laborious application and deep research is such a mark of genius as cannot be mistaken: while a real genius, like Sir Isaac Newton, with great modesty says, that the great and only difference between his mind and the minds of others consisted solely in his having more patience.

~ John Todd

Patience is produced in the midst of storms, it blossoms under the intense pressures of the storms.

~ E'yen A. Gardner

The inspector sat down on a stair, fired up a cigarette, and entered an immobility contest with a lizard.

~ Andrea Camilleri

It's the not-yet in the now, the taste of the fruit that does not-yet exist, hanging the blossom on the bough.

~ Laurens Van Der Post

The weight of wait.

~ Cameron Conaway

The feet-on-the-stove stance of this book is a deliberate attempt to cure myself, and anyone else who will listen, of the nasty habit of worrying the world to pieces like a terrier with a rag. What we are up to here is not the hasty shaking loose of a culinary result, but a patient rumination on cooking itself. There are more important things to do than hurry.

~ Robert Farrar Capon

It is said that the dead are infinitely patient, although it is usually said by the living, and how would they know?

~ Lee Battersby

Time has its own secrets, so it is best to wait upon it untill it tells.

~ Morgan Chabane

Chewing and barking do not make you a dog, you need the patience.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

I travel North Pole to South Pole; just like patience, Long but still reachable.

~ Kent Ian N. Cny

There is something beautiful in you seeking freedom.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Patience from a Buddhist perspective is not a wait and see attitude, but rather one of just be there... Patience can also be based on not expecting anything.Think of patience as an act of being open to whatever comes your way. When you begin to solidify expectations, you get frustrated because they are not met in the way you had hoped... With no set idea of how something is supposed to be, it is hard to get stuck on things not happening in the time frame you desired. Instead, you are just being there, open to the possibilities of your life.

~ Lodro Rinzler

God often grants in a moment what He has long denied.

~ Thomas À Kempis

We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.

~ Bryant Mcgill

He would never exhort the faithful to persevere if he were not ready to give them the power to do so.

~ Francis De Sales

He will unfailingly be pleased with our patience and take note of our diligence and perseverance.

~ Francis De Sales

Be patient and one day you will be in Heaven, where there will be only peace and joy ... You will possess an enduring tranquility and rest.

~ Francis De Sales

We must unceasingly ask for [perseverance] by making use of the means which God has taught us for obtaining it: prayer, fasting, almsgiving, frequenting the sacraments, association with good companions, and hearing and reading Holy Scripture.

~ Francis De Sales

I could have married again while I was still young. A congregation likes to have a married minister, and I was introduced to every niece and sister-in-law in a hundred miles. In retrospect, I'm very grateful for whatever reluctance it was that kept me alone until your mother came. Now that I look back, it seems to me that in all that deep darkness a miracle was preparing. So I am right to remember it as a blessed time, and myself as waiting in confidence, even if I had no idea what I was waiting for.

~ Marilynne Robinson

Mothers should be very careful what type of boys and men they create, or allow to be created.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Every moment a beginning. Every moment an end.

~ Mark Salzman

Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly finished planting the shoot. But all too often the greedy eyes are only deceived; the fruit that seemed so precious is still green on the inside, and disrespected hands ungratefully toss aside what has so disappointed them.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Patience is the training in abiding with the restlessness of our energy and letting things evolve at their own speed.

~ Pema Chödrön

God is never in a hurry, but he is always on time.

~ Rick Warren

Grant me the wisdom to know when to keep trying and when to stop wasting time, the patience to keep going with the 1st, and the courage & serenity to let go of the 2nd.

~ Jay Woodman

I should learn patience, it's a shame there's no time for that.

~ Maija Haavisto

Give me the discipline to get rid of the stuff that's not important, the freedom to savor the stuff that gives me joy, and the patience not to worry about the stuff that's messy but not hurting anybody.

~ Vinita Hampton Wright

You cannot have a moral holiday and remain moral, nor can you have a spiritual holiday and remain spiritual. God wants you to be entirely his, and this means that you have to watch to keep yourself fit. It takes a tremendous amount of time. Some of us expect to “clear the numberless ascensions”* in about two minutes.

~ Oswald Chambers

Patience's design flaw became obvious for the first time in my life: the outcome is decided not during the course of play but when the cards are shuffled, before the game even begins. How pointless is that?

~ David Mitchell

Patience is the gift of possibility. Time is merely an illusion. People lack patience, which is why time becomes their enemy.

~ Lionel Suggs

We are all tired of the stress.

~ K. Howard Joslin

The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.

~ Solomon Ibn Gabirol

He never even thought of tenderness and emotion; his considerations about Durham remained cold. Durham didn't dislike him, he was sure. That was all he wanted. One thing at a time. He didn't so much as have hopes, for hope distracts, and he had a great deal to see to.

~ E.m. Forster

Like nature, like life. The storm will pass. The night will end. Spring will come.

~ Carol Morgan