1,945 Quotes About Patience

God is never in a hurry, but he is always on time.

Grant me the wisdom to know when to keep trying and when to stop wasting time, the patience to keep going with the 1st, and the courage & serenity to let go of the 2nd.

Tempus Fugit

You cannot have a moral holiday and remain moral, nor can you have a spiritual holiday and remain spiritual. God wants you to be entirely his, and this means that you have to watch to keep yourself fit. It takes a tremendous amount of time. Some of us expect to “clear the numberless ascensions”* in about two minutes.

The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.

Patience is the gift of possibility. Time is merely an illusion. People lack patience, which is why time becomes their enemy.

He never even thought of tenderness and emotion; his considerations about Durham remained cold. Durham didn't dislike him, he was sure. That was all he wanted. One thing at a time. He didn't so much as have hopes, for hope distracts, and he had a great deal to see to.

Difficult times are pregnant with glory moments just waiting to be birthed in the lives of those willing to labor through the pain.

Like nature, like life. The storm will pass. The night will end. Spring will come.