Patience

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Alan Watts

Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The only way to achieve greatness is life is to have patience, consistency, and discipline.

David Goggins

Fall in love with taking care of yourself. Fall in love with becoming the best version of yourself but with patience, with compassion and respect to your own journey.

Sylvester McNutt

It's ok to be not ready to move on. Healing takes time.

Hanna Shebar

A little impatience will spoil great plans.

Chinese Proverb

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.

George Savile

No matter how long the night, the day is sure to come.

African proverbs

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

Alan Alexander Milne

How much of human life is lost in waiting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

Carl Sandburg

It is always the worst wheel that creaks.

French proverbs

Do not judge of the ship while it is on the stocks.

Italian proverbs

The remedy for hard times is to have patience.

Arab proverbs

All comes right for him who can wait.

French proverbs

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.

Stephen Covey

However long the night, the dawn will break.

African proverbs

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong, without comment.

T.H. White

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.

Charles William Eliot

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Lao Tzu