Quotes about Patience

Fellow of Delicacy XIII. The Fellow of No Delicacy XIV. The Honest Tradesman XV. Knitting XVI. Still

But, the time was not come yet; and every wind that blew over France shook their rags of the scarecrows in vain, for the birds, fine of song and feather, took no warning.

Not to make Joe uneasy by talking too much, even if I had been able to talk much, I deferred asking him about Miss Havisham until next day. He shook his head when I then asked him if she had recovered? 'Is she dead, Joe?' 'Why, you see, old chap,' said Joe, in a tone of remonstrance, and by way of getting at it by degrees, 'I wouldn't go so far as to say that, for that's a deal to say; but she ain't -' 'Living, Joe?' 'That's nigher where it is,' said Joe; 'she ain't living.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

And my experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to want the second, when that is out.

It is while you are patiently toiling at little tasks that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn upon you.

Love seems the swiftest but is the slowest of all growths. No man and woman really know what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

Let all that I am wait quietly before God, for my hope is in him.

This doesn't make sense to me right now, but it's all going to make sense in eternity. It will produce something in eternity that would not have been there otherwise. So in faith I'm going to.

As Christians, regardless of what cause we may have to be troubled, there is greater cause not to be.

Believe in miracles but don't depend on them.

Never give up on a dream just because of the length of time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. 1277