Famous Quotes

"A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust."

Gertrude Jekyll 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 Gertrude Jekyll

• "There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight."

• "What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade."

• "A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust."

• "The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies."

• "The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives."