Quotes about Patience

If you feel that your dreams aren't coming true, you might think that you need to do more, or to think and strategize more. In fact, what you might need is less—less noise coming to you from both inside and outside—so that you have the space for your heart's truest intention to germinate and flourish.

Making an effort at the wrong time or place dissipates our energy.

Science prospers exactly in proportion as it is religious. The great deeds of philosophers have been less the fruit of their intellect than of the direction of that intellect by an eminently religious tone of mind. Truth has yielded herself rather to their patience, their love, their single-heartedness and their self-denial, than to their logical acumen.

Delay is preferable to error.

The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches. We must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

When angry, count to 10 before you speak. If very angry, a hundred.

When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your work well.

Hurry ruins saints as well as artists.

We have what we seek. We don't have to rush after it. It was there all the time, and if we give it time it will make itself known to us.

If you find God with great ease, perhaps it is not God you have found.

What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer?

One of the strange laws of the contemplative life is that in it you do not sit down and solve problems: you bear with them until they somehow solve themselves.