patience Quotes

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

A jug fills drop by drop.

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

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.