Quotes on Patience

There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.

It is necessary for him who would endure existence with patience that he should conceive himself to be something - that he should be persuaded he is not a cipher in the muster-roll of man.

we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

Patience and submission are very carefully to be distinguished from cowardice and indolence. We are not to repine, but we may lawfully struggle; for the calamities of life, like the necessities of Nature, are calls to labor and diligence.

If indeed the qualities such as love, patience, tolerance, and forgiveness are what happiness consists in, and if it is also true that compassion, defined as concern for others, is both the source and the fruit of these qualities, then the more we are compassionate, the more we provide for our own happiness.

The past is an illusion. You must learn to live in the present and accept yourself for what you are now. What you lack in flexibility and agility you must make up with knowledge and constant practice.

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

Many people think that patience is a sign of weakness. _x000D_ I think this is a mistake. It is anger that is a sign of _x000D_ weakness, whereas patience is a sign of strength

The poison leaves bit by bit, not all at once. Be patient. You are healing.

When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.

When you feel gloomy, think what has been done within the last year. How, rising from nothing.

Wait with patience and love and strength. If helpers are not ready now, they will come in time. Why should we be in a hurry? The real working force of all great work is in its almost unperceived beginnings.

The bane of sects, especially in Bengal, is that if any one happens to have a different opinion, he immediately starts a new sect, he has no patience to wait.

Nothing else is necessary but these - love, sincerity, and patience.