Patience Quotes

We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes.

Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.

There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.

Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.

The larvae you see today would grow into a large butterfly tomorrow. Size is what you see now, allow the clock to tick, then check on the size again.

I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer. Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper.

Teams that spend a lot of time learning the tricks of the trade will probably never really learn the trade.

Trust is not a gasoline-soaked blanket that succumbs to the matches of betrayal, never able to be used for its warmth again; it’s a tapestry that wears thin in places, but can be patched over if you have the right materials, circumstances, and patience to repair it. If you don’t, you’re always the one who feels the coldest when winter comes.

He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world.

She was the book thief without the words.

Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like rain.

Sometimes you just have to know when the battle you’re fighting is one best walked away from, than fought to the cold, bitter end.

There is stability in walking an uncertain path, because you never allow yourself to be misled by what you think you know.

We do not have to see the beginning and the end of our lives, but we must close our eyes and live as if we didn't start or would never end.

After all, I had been waiting decades for it to come. I wanted to escape this world, but only it could help me.

Practice patience to get the results but don't be much patient to take actions.

Anything you dream [can] be yours simply because you've focused on the steps you could take instead of the distance to get there.

Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is a quality of the highest respect.

Some patient dogs had waited a long time for the fatest bone to come, but the impatient had gone to scavenge for the little it could see.

Happiness, honor, and great estate,
For those who patiently work and wait.

I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we are able to honestly to pray what He taught His disciples to pray: Thy will be done.