Browsing Quotes With Tag: patience (16)
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Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitches today to save nine tomorrow.
Speaker: Henry David ThoreauPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:03 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Sometimes you may struggle with a problem and not get an answer. What could be wrong? It may be that you are not doing anything wrong. It may be that you have not done the right things long enough. Remember, you cannot force spiritual things. Sometimes we are confused simply because we won’t take no for an answer. …
“Put difficult questions in the back of your minds and go about your lives. Ponder and pray quietly and persistently about them.
“The answer may not come as a lightning bolt. It may come as a little inspiration here and a little there, ‘line upon line, precept upon precept’ (D&C 98:12).
“Some answers will come from reading the scriptures, some from hearing speakers. And, occasionally, when it is important, some will come by very direct and powerful inspiration. The promptings will be clear and unmistakable”.
Speaker: Elder Boyd K. PackerSource: Conference Report, Oct. 1979, 29–30; or Ensign, Nov. 1979, 21Posted: 13 Feb 2013 at 8:49 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Kindness will beget friendship and favor, but anger or passion will drive away sympathy. To win one’s respect and confidence, approach him mildly, kindly. No friendship was ever gained by an attack upon principle or upon man, but by calm reason and the lowly Spirit of Truth.
If you have built for a man a better house than his own, and he is willing to accept yours and forsake his, then, and not till then, should you proceed to tear down the old structure. Rotten though it may be it will require some time for it to lose all its charms and fond memories of its former occupant. Therefore let him, not you, proceed to tear it away. Kindness and courtesy are the primal elements of gentility.
Speaker: Joseph F. SmithSource: Letter of 18 May 1896 to Hyrum M. Smith, in From Prophet to Son, pp. 42-43Posted: 03 Sep 2012 at 12:33 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.”
Speaker: Hermann HesseSource: SiddharthaPosted: 01 Nov 2009 at 6:27 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Nothing is caused by demons; there are no demons. Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goal, if he can think, wait, and fast.”
Speaker: Hermann HesseSource: SiddharthaPosted: 01 Nov 2009 at 6:19 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.
Speaker: Arnold H. GlasgowPosted: 16 Jun 2009 at 8:30 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The Lord never said, “Go to your room, you’re grounded!” He always says, “Come unto me.”
Posted: 13 Jan 2009 at 1:19 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
Speaker: Gene FowlerPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 2:49 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You can’t live with an angel unless you change to a like condition. You eventually shape up or ship our. Whatever good there is in one person is appealed to by the angel nature of the other. Most people have a great deal of good within them, and if only others would perceive it and treat them accordingly, this would tend to bring it out.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:34 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
As Dr. Johnson said: “God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge man until the end of His days.” Why should you and I?
Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:32 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Do you know someone you would like to change and regulate and improve? Good! That is fine. I am all in favor of it. But why not begin on yourself? From a purely selfish standpoint, that is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others – yes, and a lot less dangerous.
Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:26 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.
Speaker: John WanamakerPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:25 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“One that is mortal must bear adversity with a patient heart.” Tutor
Speaker: EurpiidesPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 12:02 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“If you wait long enough,” he said, “people will surprise and impress you.”
…Jon warned me that sometimes this took great patience – even years.Speaker: Randy PauschPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 7:54 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When people talk about you now you know they are talking about a secondary character in their story who represents you. They are talking about an image they create for you. You know that it has nothing to do with you. Nut if you agree, if you believe what they say, then their story becomes a part of your story. If you take it personally, it modifies your story. If you don’t take it personally, the opinions of others do not affect you the way they used to, and you have more patience with people.
Speaker: Don Miguel RuizPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:33 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You must realize that it is the ordinary way of God’s dealings with us
that our ideas do not work out speedily and efficiently as we would like
them to. The reason for this is not only the loving wisdom of God, but
also the fact that our acts have to fit into a great complex pattern
that we cannot possibly understand. I have learned over the years that
Providence is always a whole lot wiser than any of us, and that there
are always not only good reasons, but the very best reasons for the
delays and blocks that often seem to us so frustrating and absurd.Speaker: Thomas MertonPosted: 26 Nov 2007 at 8:44 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!