Quotes about Patience

If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.

The universe can take quite a while to deliver.

I believe that some of us who were kept by God a long while before we found Him love Him better perhaps than we should have done if we had received Him directly, and we can preach better to others - we can speak more of His loving-kindness and tender mercy.

The Lord never lays more on us, in the way of chastisement, than our state of heart makes needful; so that whilst He smites with the one hand, He supports with the other.

The greatest difficulty always comes right before the birth of a dream.

If you have a temper, now is the time to learn to control it. The more you do so while you are young, the more easily it will happen.

Education is… hanging around until you've caught on.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.