Pastoral Resources

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.

Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.

I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here.

As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future.

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

Patience is sorrow's salve.

Patience is the art of hoping.

This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

The greatest power is often simple patience.