Quotes about Patience
It is hard to bear with people who stand still along the way, lose heart, and seek their happiness in little pleasures which they cling to...You feel sad about all that self-indulgence and self-satisfaction, for you know with an indestructible certainty that something greater is coming.
- Henri Nouwen
Most people carrying heavy loads begin to doubt themselves & their own worth. We lighten their loads as we are patient with their weaknesses & celebrate whatever goodness we can see in them. The Lord does that.
- Henry B. Eyring
If God wants to give you more than you are asking, would you rather have what you are asking or what God wants to give?
- Henry Blackaby
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
- Henry David Thoreau
Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
- Henry David Thoreau
Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitches today to save nine tomorrow.
- Henry David Thoreau
Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short." [ Letter to Harrison Blake ; November 16, 1857]
- Henry David Thoreau
We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course.
- Henry David Thoreau
I am thinking by what long discipline and at what cost a man learns to speak simply at last.
- Henry David Thoreau
Not that the story need to be long, but it will take a long time to shorten it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Whate'er we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
- Henry David Thoreau
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple tree or an oak. Shall he turn his spring into summer? If the condition of things which we were made for is not yet, what were any reality which we can substitute?
- Henry David Thoreau