Famous Quotes

"Hope is patience with the lamp lit."

Tertullian on Patience

More quotes about Patience

• "Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity."

  Carl Jung on Patience

• "Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come."

  Robert H. Schuller on Patience

• "Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success."

  Napoleon Hill on Patience

• "We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world."

  Helen Keller on Patience

• "How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"

  William Shakespeare on Patience

More quotes by Tertullian

• "You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine."

• "Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame."

• "Fear is the foundation of safety."

• "You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing."

• "Hope is patience with the lamp lit."