A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.
You keep on going until you get it as close to being right as the time and patience of others will allow.
but curiosity is a restless and scrupulous passion, and no one girl can endure, with patience, that hers should be baffled by another.
For the far higher task of teaching fortitude and patience I was never fool enough to suppose myself qualified, nor have I anything to offer my readers except my conviction that when pain is to be borne, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.
Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.
He felt the comfort of being part of an eternal cycle symbolized by the gold strips on either side of the black mourning band he wore. Light, dark, light. The dark was just an interval.
Our problem is that we often expect instantaneous solutions to such challenges, forgetting that frequently the heavenly virtue of patience is required.
In the NBA, it's about patience.
The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.
The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.
Patience s bitter, but it's fruit is sweet.
The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.
Greatness comes with patience.
Have no friends not equal to yourself.
Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.
To lose patience is to lose the battle.
Homeland of patience, land of the Russian people.