Quotes about Patience

Patience is the ability to wait and calmly preserve. We all grow impatient, but some people have more trouble waiting than others do. We tend to forget that all good things take time.

After all, if you really aren't trying to get anywhere else in this moment, patience takes care of itself.

You Can't Stop the Waves but You Can Learn to Surf

You can't sail straight into the wind, and if you only know how to sail with the wind at your back, you will only go where the wind blows you. But if you know how to use the wind's energy and are patient, you can sometimes get where you want to go. You can still be in control

It's not a matter of letting go—you would if you could. Instead of Let it go, we should probably say Let it be.

know that things unfold according to their own nature. We can remember to let our lives unfold in the same way. We don't have to let our anxieties and our desire for certain results dominate the quality of the moment, even when things are painful. When we have to push, we push. When we have to pull, we pull. But we know when not to push too, and when not to pull.

The challenge of mindfulness is to be present for your experience as it is rather than immediately jumping in to change it or try to force it to be different.

Can we trust that things unfold in their own time and that we do not have to fix everything or even anything?

Patience is an ever present alternative to the mind's endemic restlessness and impatience. Scratch the surface of impatience and what you will find lying beneath it, subtly or not so subtly, is anger. It's the strong energy of not wanting things to be the way they are and blaming someone (often yourself) or something for it. This doesn't mean you can't hurry when you have to. It is possible even to hurry patiently, mindfully, moving fast because you have chosen to.

Hardship is a legitimate test of character, resilience a legitimate sign of strength and patience a legitimate mark of faith.

True faith is when you see the harvest before you plant the seed.

The grass is always green if God is watering it.