Quotes about Patience

It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

The Future… something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be painted---i.e., keep fulfilling all the obvious duties of your station (you really know quite well enough what they are!), asking forgiveness for each failure and then leaving it alone.You are in the right way. Walk---don't keep on looking at it.

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.

Time and tides wait for none

Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

Don't you know that four fifths of all our troubles in this life would disappear if we would just sit down and keep still?

It has been my observation in life that, if one will only exercise the patience to wait, his wants are likely to be filled.

Life will not always be so hard or cruel. Our difficulties are but a moment.