Quotes about Patience

Obsessing over the future is not how God wants us to live, because showing us the future is not God's way.

The main reason for people's lack of success is their willingness to give up what they want most of all, for what they want right now!

Knowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we have been fretting and worrying, we should have glorified God far more had we literally gone to sleep.

I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

If you don't know what tomorrow holds, you need to know who holds tomorrow!

It's always too early to quit.

We called him Tortoise because he taught us.

For a moment, imagine the person you hope to marry. What do they look like? Are they funny, intelligent, kind? How do you hope they are living their life right now? Would it bother you if you knew they were hooking up each weekend or had five, ten, or fifteen different partners over the past several years? Or would it make you smile if you knew they were holding out for you? Why not live your life as you would want them to live theirs? Wait for the relationship.

Real improvement is of slow growth only.