Are you an impatient person? If so, welcome
to the club. We human beings are, by nature, impatient for the changes that we so earnestly desire. We want solutions to our problems, and we want them now! But sometimes, life’s greatest challenges defy easy solutions, so we must be patient.
And while we're waiting and working, we should consider the ideas that follow:
The Prudence and
the Power of Patience
"Genius is nothing more than a greater aptitude for patience."
Ben Franklin
"Never think that God’s delays are God’s denials. Hold on; hold
fast; hold out. Patience is genius."
Buffon
"Who longest waits most surely wins."
Helen Hunt Jackson
"All good abides with him who waits wisely."
Henry David Thoreau
"All human power is a compound of time and patience."
Honoré de Balzac
"The greatest and most sublime power is often simple patience."
Horace Bushnell
The Wisdom of Patience
"Sometimes in life the best and hardest thing to do is nothing."
J. R. Freeman
"The best thing one can do when it is raining is to let it rain."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Patience and perseverance at length,
Accomplish more than anger or brute strength."
Jean de La Fontaine
"To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy."
Hippocrates
"Genius is eternal patience."
Michelangelo
And Finally
"Patience of spirit is better than haughtiness of spirit."
Psalm 7:8 NASB
"Waiting patiently in expectation is the foundation of the spiritual
life."
Simone Weil
"In all negotiations of difficulties, a man may not look to sow and
reap at once; but must prepare business and so ripen it by degrees."
Francis Bacon
"Learn to accept in silence minor aggravations."
William Osler
"Have patience with all things, but mostly with yourself. Don’t lose
courage considering your own imperfections, but instantly begin remedying them.
Every day begin the task anew."
St. Francis de Sales
"Patience is bitter, but its fruit sweet."
Rousseau
This page was written and
compiled by Criswell Freeman, Psy.D.
