Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.

My dad always used to tell me that sometimes you have to have a massive storm in order to clear the sky.

And if we folks have a motto, it's this: 'Don't holler - smile and bide your time.' We've survived a passel of things that way, smiling and biding our time, and we've gotten to be experts at surviving.

Patience is the remedy for every misfortune.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.

You can find peace amidst the storms that threaten you.

The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

Patience, increasing patience

If we are deprived of hope as well as fear, we are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring or simply for waiting.

Whatever you're doing, you must have patience.

Patience is not just about waiting for something... it's about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

You will have all kinds of trials to pass through. And it is quite as necessary for you to be tried as it was for Abraham and other men of God. [….] God will feel after you, and He will take hold of you and wrench your very heart strings and if you cannot stand it you will not be fit for an inheritance in the Celestial kingdom of God.

Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking.

Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm.

Every storm runs out of rain, just like every dark night turns into day.

I am not thoughtless but am prepared for anything and as a result can wait patiently for whatever the future holds in store, and I'll be able to endure it.

I believe it will take time to find a solution to the problem. Thus we must have patience.

The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling. (Varys)

Have patience, and endure

There is no other course but the one we have chosen, except the course of humiliation and darkness, after which there will be no bright sign in the sky or brilliant light on earth? All this will make us more patient and steadfast, and better prepared for the battle which God blesses and which good men support. Then there will only be a glorious conclusion, where a brilliant sun will clear the dust of battle, and where the clouds of battles will be dispelled.

We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm.

Possess your soul with patience.

Why is patience so important?" "Because it makes us pay attention.