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Quotes about Patience

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
- Vincent Van Gogh
It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.
- Vincent Van Gogh
You have to make time, even for something as universal as staring at the stars.
- WP Kinsella
Never miss an opportunity to shut up.
- Mark Twain
Think first. Talk less. Start today.
- Charles Swindoll
If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly.
- Benjamin Disraeli
It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.
- Booker T. Washington
Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean do not be disheartened by your imperfections, but always rise up with fresh courage
- Francis de Sales
The fact is, you can't marry the best when you're dating the runner-up. While you're searching for Mr. Right, don't settle for Mr. Right Now.
- Craig Groeschel
True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.
- Philip Yancey
Prayer helps correct myopia, calling to mind a perspective I daily forget. I keep reversing roles, thinking of ways in which God should serve me, rather than vice versa. As God fiercely reminded Job, the Lord of the universe has many things to manage, and in the midst of my self-pity I would do well to contemplate for a moment God's own point of view.
- Philip Yancey
We truly live only one day at a time. It doesn't really help to worry about the future, which we can't control, or the past, which we can't change.
- Philip Yancey