Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Being patient sucks less after reading these...

How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees.
~William Shakespeare

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
~Brian Adams

Our patience will achieve more than our force.
~Edmund Burke

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
~John Quincy Adams

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.
~George Jackson

Patience is passion tamed.
~Lyman Abbott

There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails.
~Richard Rybolt

"The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter."
Paulo Coelho

"Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything."
Mother Teresa

"Patience is bitter, but it's fruit is sweet."
Aristotle

"If something doesn't work exactly right, or maybe needs some special treatment, you don't just throw it away. Everything can't be fully operational all the time. Sometimes, we need to have the patience to give something the little nudge it needs."
Sarah Dessen

"Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can."
J.R.R. Tolkien

"Patience is tied very closely to faith in our Heavenly Father. Actually, when we are unduly impatient, we are suggesting that we know what is best—better than does God. Or, at least, we are asserting that our timetable is better than His. We can grow in faith only if we are willing to wait patiently for God's purposes and patterns to unfold in our lives, on His timetable."
Neal A. Maxwell

1 comment:

  1. Okay, Kelly....what a nice post. Love all the different ideas on that sometimes difficult quality. Dad always says that we need to be patient and now I am convinced.

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