Patience Quotes - Page 27

• Never change horses in midstream.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Horse, Never Change

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• Let nothing disturb thee,
  Nothing affright thee;
  All things are passing;
  God never changeth;
  Patient endurance
  Attaineth to all things;
  Who God possesseth
  In nothing is wanting;
  Alone God sufficeth.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Endurance, Patient, Never Change

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.694, Library of America

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• Patience; accomplish thy labor; accomplish thy work of affection!
  Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
  Therefore accomplish thy labor of love, till the heart is made godlike,
  Purified, strengthened, perfected, and rendered more worthy of heaven.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Strong, Heart, Heaven

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.112

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• The more haste, the less speed.

  John Heywood

  Haste, Speed

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.384

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• You can butcher the sheep only once. But if you are careful, you can shear the sheep every year.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Sheep, Years, Butchers

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.10, A&C Black

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• There was a patient look on the old man's face, as if the world were a great mistake and he had nobody with whom to speak his own language or find companionship.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Mistake, Men, Endurance

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2016). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.78, Sarah Orne Jewett

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• There are no short cuts to Heaven, only the ordinary way of ordinary things.

  Vincent McNabb

  Cutting, Heaven, Way

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• Hasty climbers have sudden falls.

  Robert Greene

  Fall, Ambition, Haste

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• What is so certain of victory as patience?

  Selma Lagerlöf

  Victory, Certain

  Selma Lagerlöf (1914). “The Story of Gösta Berling”

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• Great is the advantage of patience.

  John Tillotson

  Advantage

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• deferring gratification is a good definition of being civilized.

  Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

  Definitions, Gratification, Civilized

  Bernice Fitz-Gibbon (1967). “Macy's, Gimbels, and Me: How to Earn $90,000 a Year in Retail Advertising”

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• Like I always say, if you sit long enough by the crack of the door, you'll see your enemy go by in a hearse.

  Sally Stanford

  Doors, Long, Enemy

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• There is no well-doing, no Godlike doing, that is not patient doing.

  J. G. Holland

  Patient, Godlike, Wells

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• Sometimes you just have to be patient and brave and strong. If you don't know how, just make it up as you go along.

  Douglas Pagels

  Courage, Strong, Brave

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• Good things come to those who initiate.

  Susan RoAne

  Fitness, Workout, Monday

  Susan RoAne (2009). “Face to Face: How to Reclaim the Personal Touch in a Digital World”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• When men are engaged in war and conquest, the tools of science become as dangerous as a razor in the hands of a child of three. We must not condemn man because his inventiveness and patient conquest of the forces of nature are being exploited for false and destructive purposes. Rather, we should remember that the fate of mankind hinges entirely upon man’s moral development.

  Albert Einstein

  Children, War, Fate

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• And then--a Day as huge
  As Yesterdays in pairs,
  Unrolled its horror in my face--
  Until it blocked my eyes

  Emily Dickinson

  Gratitude, Eye, Yesterday

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.168, Harvard University Press

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• The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity.

  Samuel Johnson

  Generations, Genius, Disease

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.237

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• When the precipitancy of a man's wishes hurries on his ideas ninety times faster than the vehicle he rides in--woe be to truth!

  Laurence Sterne

  Men, Ideas, Wish

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.215

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• [On being an actor] .nothing more than a worker in a service occupation . It's like being a waiter or a gas station attendant, but I'm waiting on 6 million people in a week if I'm lucky.

  Harrison Ford

  Time, People, Waiting

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• We have scarcely gotten home ... when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after waiting all day to do so. There is the bellyache and the burned-out basement bulb, the stalled car and the incontinent cat. The windows frost, the toilets sweat, the body of our spouse is one cold shoulder and the darkness of our bedroom is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures.

  William H. Gass

  Time, Children, Failure

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• Extreme patience and persistence are required,
  Yet everybody succeeds at this before being handed
  The surprise box lunch of the rest of his life.

  John Ashbery

  Life, Growing Up, Persistence

  John Ashbery (1981). “Shadow train: poems”, Viking Adult

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• I'm bidin' my time,
  'Cause that's the kinda guy I'm.

  Ira Gershwin

  Guy, Waiting, Causes

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• Logic can be patient, for it is eternal.

  Oliver Heaviside

  Patient, Logic, Eternal

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• There is one form of hope which is never unwise, and which certainly does not diminish with the increase of knowledge. In that form it changes its name, and we call it patience.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Names, Doe, Increase

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