Quotes about Patience

The best remedy for anger is delay.

We are reminded that anger doesn't solve anything. It builds nothing, but it can destroy everything.

Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.

Anger does a man more hurt than that which made him angry.

Anger is self-immolation.

Don't keep putting your anger off. Until you go through it, you can't get out of it.

Allowing anger to seethe on the back burner will lead to a very large lid blowing off a very hot pot.

Don't lose your temper; use it.

Let tomorrow come tomorrow. Not by your will is the house carried through the night. Order is only the possibility of rest.

The worst temptation of religious people has always been to publish and punish the sins of (other) sinners in this world, with no patience or deference for the judgment of God.

You think the winter will never end, and then, when you don't expect it, when you have almost forgotten it, warmth comes and a different light.

The hill is like an old woman, all her human obligations met, who sits at work day after day, in a kind of rapt leisure, at an intricate embroidery. She has time for all things. Because she does not expect ever to be finished, she is endlessly patient with details. She perfects flower and leaf, feather and song, adorning the briefest life in great beauty as though it were meant to last forever.