Quotes about Patience
There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
- Barbara Kingsolver
If we say it long enough eventually we're going to reap a harvest. We're going to get exactly what we're saying.
- Joel Osteen
To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.
- Henri Nouwen
Though it seems curious, I do not remember ever asking for anything but what I got it. And I always received it as an answer to my prayers.
- Sojourner Truth
I just need to be myself and allow things to happen. If it's God's will, good things will happen.
- Jon Jones
Until the time is right, disappear we will.
- George Lucas
Envious of none, I am determined to be pleased with all, and this, my dear friend, being the order for my march, I will move gently down the stream of life until I sleep with my fathers.
- George Washington
Be not hasty to believe flying reports to the disparagement of any.
- George Washington
When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and Nineties, I learnt the meaning of patience. And when I worked with trees, I learned the meaning of humility.
- James Balog
At writing workshops, they taught us to show, not tell - well, showing takes time.
- Lydia Millet
When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
- William Temple
I really admire people who are extraordinarily tolerant and patient.
- Holly Hunter