Quotes about Patience

Die Wissenschaft muss mit glatten Wangen begonnen werden und nicht erst mit runzeligen, wenn man in ihr etwas erreichen will.

It is the same with wretchedness as with everything else. It ends by becoming bearable.

To-morrow fulfils its work irresistibly, and it is already fulfilling it to-day.

Did not i say that things would come right of themselves? said the Bishop. Then he added, with a smile, To him who contents himself with the surplice of a curate, God sends the cope of an archbishop. Monseigneur, murmured the cure, throwing back his head with a smile. God or the Devil.

Having an immense reserve fund of wrath to get rid of, and not knowing what to do with it, he continued to address his daughter as you instead of thou for the next three months.

Saint Augustine: 'Place your expectations in Him to whom there is no succession!

Destiny, with its mysterious and fatal patience, was slowly bringing these two beings near each other, fully charged and all languishing with the stormy electricities of passion.

Is it better to shout and thereby hasten the end, or to keep silent and gain thereby a slower death?

He understands that that impatience to speak is also an implacable uninterest in listening

Don't worry about what you don't have if you do have faith!

Your most vauluable asset can be your willingness to persist longer than anyone else.

Successful people are those who are willing to delay gratification and make sacrifices in the short term so that they can enjoy far greater rewards in the long term.