Quotes about Patience
Life is like riding in a taxi. Whether you are going anywhere or not, the meter keeps ticking.
- John Maxwell
When I cannot understand my Father's leading, And it seems to be but hard and cruel fate, Still I hear that gentle whisper ever pleading, God is working, God is faithful. Only wait.
- AB Simpson
It made me think of the way so many of us live our lives. We can see what we want, and nearly kill ourselves trying to get it in a way that's not working. Meanwhile, if we just stopped, got quiet for a minute or two, and looked at things a little differently, we'd notice the door to what we want being held open for us by the nice lady in the bathrobe across the room. Then all we'd have to do is fly through it.
- Jen Sincero
What you focus on you create more of so focusing on impatience = lack = pushing it away. Choose what to focus on to strengthen your faith and patience and you will be victorious.
- Jen Sincero
A wise man once said nothing.
- Jen Sincero
We need days of failure because they help humble us, and through them we can see how God's grace is poured out on the humble.
- Elyse Fitzpatrick
He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!
- Emily Bronte
I'm trying to settle how I shall pay Hindley back. I don't care how long I wait, if I can only do it at last. I hope he will not die before I do!
- Emily Bronte
Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
- Epictetus
No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
- Epictetus
End the habit of despising things that are not within your power
- Epictetus
Friends, wait for God. When He gives the signal, and releases you from this service, then depart to Him. But for the present, endure to dwell in the place wherein He has assigned you your post. Short indeed is the time of your habitation, and easy to those that are thus minded. What tyrant, what robber, what tribunals have any terrors for those who thus esteem the body and all that belong to it as of no account?
- Epictetus