Patience
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- A moment of patience in a moment of anger prevents a thousand moments of regret.
- After you plant a seed in the ground, you don’t dig it up every week to see how it is doing.
- All great achievements require time.
- All human power is a compound of time and patience.
- All men commend patience, though few be willing to practise it.
- All things come round to him who will but wait.Henry Wadsworth LongfellowCommonly attributed
- An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains.
- Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
- Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.
- Be patient, however long it takes.
- Beware of him that is slow to anger; anger, when it is long in coming, is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.
- Beware of the fury of a patient man.
- Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.
- Details matter, it’s worth waiting to get it right.
- Discipline, consistency and patience. If you lack these, you won’t grow.
- Do what is right the best way you can, and wait to the end to know.
- Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
- Endurance is patience concentrated.
- Everything valuable takes time, there are no overnight successes.
- For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
- Fraud and deceit are ever in a hurry. Take time for all things. Great haste makes great waste.
- Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.Georges-Louis Leclerc de BuffonCommonly attributed
- Good investing requires a weird combination of patience and aggression.Charles T. MungerCommonly attributed
- Have patience with all things but first of all with yourself.
- Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.
- He surely is most in need of another’s patience, who has none of his own.
- He that can have patience, can have what he will.
- He that has patience may compass anything.
- He who says Patience, says Courage, Endurance, Strength.
- Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
- How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees.
- [I]mport into Education the wisdom of life. Leave this military hurry and adopt the pace of Nature. Her secret is patience.
- I trained 4 years to run 9 seconds and people give up when they don’t see results in 2 months.
- If you go faster, you don’t go far. This is one of the biggest contradictions in life. Slow and steady gets your farther — over time.
- If you have good habits, time becomes your ally. All you need is patience.
- Imitate time. It destroys slowly. It undermines, wears, loosens, separates. It does not uproot.
- It is by attempting to reach the top by a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.
- It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.Horace BushnellCommonly attributed
- It is only the long and patient road that leads to anywhere.
- It is the slowest pulsation which is the most vital. The hero will then know how to wait, as well as to make haste. All good abides with him who waiteth wisely.