Ovid
Roman poet, 43 BC-17 AD
13 quotes.
Quotes by Ovid
- A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
- Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.
- Burdens become light when cheerfully borne.
- Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
- Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
- Fortune and love favor the brave.
- Habits change into character.
- If you are not ready today, you will be even less so tomorrow.
- If you want to be loved, be lovable.
- Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
- Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop
- There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.
- What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.