When we are impatient, we are neither reverential nor reflective because we are too self-centered. Whereas faith and patience are companions, so are selfishness and impatience. It is so easy to be confrontive without being...

Jerome and Duce have taught Willie patience. They’ve worked with him on how to read blocks. He’s been an accepting pupil. But the one thing you can’t teach is his speed.

The best teachers have showed me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly–we only think it does. The motion of drawing back a bow and sending an...

Before you examine the body of a patient, be patient to learn his story. For once you learn his story, you will also come to know his body.

If love becomes too painful, then it’s time to let that love go and save yourself. You have to keep this in mind because you’ll be able to find another love but not another self.

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

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them — every day begin the task anew –

Lightning strikes the earth and thunder heralds the doom but the earth bears it all in silence, teaching us that life may be harsh to us but we shouldn’t be so to life.

True love isn’t expressed in passionately whispered words or in an intimate kiss or a embrace; before two people are married, love is expressed in self-control, patience, even words left unsaid.

Patience is the key to contentment.

You don’t always have to teach the the corrective lesson. Sometimes you can teach the lesson of patience and non-engagement.

Waiting does not exist in the experience of those who recognize the presence of love wherever they are.

He realized that, despite the dangers and alarms of the day, waiting was perhaps the worst thing of all.

It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.

A pretty building I’m making, without either bricks or timber. I’m up i’ the garret a’ready, and haven’t so much as dug the foundation.

How do new watches catch up with old watches that have had more time to get a head start? This is what I pondered while I waited on her to fall in love with me.

I’m inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.

Ten years from now, no one is going to care how quickly the books came out. The only thing that will matter, the only thing anyone will remember, is how good they were. That’s my...

Maybe this is a second doctoral program: advanced learning about life, death, marriage, mothering, family, faith, patience, prayer. My degree will be ‘Doctor of Life,’ and I will be in good company. So many of...

There are seasons when to be still demands immeasurably higher strength than to act.

You don’t lose anythings by being humble. A humble person will win the heart of a King.

We just saw a need there because these individuals can understand a lot. They just need people with patience to show them. It’s a feel-good type of thing just to know that you can accomplish...

I’ve already found the right person. I’m just waiting for her to be ready.

This exit of the settlers is the result of sacrifices of our people, the patience of our people … and the wisdom of our people.

Man hurries, God does not. That is why man’s works are uncertain and maimed, while God’s are flawless and sure. My eyes welling with tears, I vowed never to transgress this eternal law again. Like...

Is anything truly impossible? Or is it that the path to our goals appears too unclear to follow? It seems to me that if you seek hard enough, pray hard enough, you usually stumble across...

so much is happening now; you must be patient like someone who is sick, and confident like someone who is recovering; for perhaps you are both. And more: you are also the doctor, who has...

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

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.

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

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

When someone is being particularly mean and nasty, I simply think to myself, he or she used to be a cute little baby, I wonder what happened?

There is stability in walking an uncertain path, because you never allow yourself to be misled by what you think you know.

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,...

Often the deep valleys of our present will be understood only by looking back on them from the mountains of our future experience.

Knowledge is power, as some say. But on some days it is just as much pain and confusion as it is power; and any wise man worth his salt as a wise man at least...

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

If I could store any character quality in a cookie jar, I’d store patience. Chocolate-chip patience cookies. And I’d eat them all at one sitting.

In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange.

Personal discipline is a most powerful character quality and one worthy of dedicating your life to nurturing.

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

Success is all about patience.

Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow – that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

if you don’t like something change it and if you cannot change it ,change the way you you think about it.

They (had) a lot of patience. If he was in a regular dentist, they wouldn’t hold his head like that. And (here) they talk to him, and they were laughing.

When the game was close we didn’t have enough patience. Everyone wanted to hit one out of the park.

There is no such a rule that patience leads to salvation! Patience can lead to salvation or it can lead to disaster. Every inaction or every action is open to all the possibilities!

Patience isn’t tested when it is self-imposed and the duration is self-regulated. Patience is hardly tested when the outcome means little to you. However, when circumstances beyond your control force you to wait with baited...

One can imbibe those lessons only to the extent of one’s patience and intelligent skill.

If the river has a soul, it’s a peaceful one. If it has a lesson to impart, that lesson is patience. There will be drought, it says; there will be floods; the ice will form,...