Quotes about Patience

Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting.

Every day is conquerable by its hours, and every hour by its minutes.

The key to enjoying the moment is to always carry a list of "Things I Gotta Do That Can Wait."

An old dog, even more than an old spouse, always feels like doing what you feel like doing.

God answers first the prayers we should have prayed.

Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.

The Woman had told her that Tomorrow never comes, but Elizabeth knows better. It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen…wonderful things.

There are a great many people who do not understand things so there is no use in telling them.

But maybe everything'll go all right. In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take what ever God sends.

But the summer had been a very happy one, too -- a time of glad living with summer suns and skies, a time of keen delight in wholesome things; a time of renewing and deepening of old friendships; a time in which she had learned to live more nobly, to work more patiently, to play more heartily.

If only she were a boy, speeding in khaki by Carol's side to the western front! She had wished that in a burst of romance when Jem had gone, without perhaps, meaning it. She meant it now. There were moments when waiting at home, in safety and comfort, seemed an unendurable thing.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.