Quotes about Patience

She went to the open door and stood in it and looked out among the tomato vines and jimpson weeds that constituted the garden. No Tom. So she lifted up her voice at an angle calculated for distance and shouted:

There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it sometimes.

I went right along, not fixing up any particular plan, but just trusting to Providence to put the right words in my mouth when the time come; for I'd noticed that Providence always did put the right words in my mouth if I left it alone.

Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.

Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.

For years now I have heard the word Wait! It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This Wait has almost always meant Never. We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that justice too long delayed is justice denied.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

God is able to give you the power to endure that which cannot be changed... Why be anxious? Come what may, God is able.

when you are forever fighting a degenerating sense of 'nobodiness'—then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait. There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amidst the piercing chill of an Alpine November.

No problem is solved when we idly wait for God to undertake full responsibility.