Patience
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- Judgment is not a swift-growing plant; it requires time and culture to mature it.
- Man without patience is the lamp without oil, and pride in a rage is a bad counsellor.
- Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
- Marriage requires the fuel of mature love to get it off the launching pad, trust to give it thrust, and patience to keep it in orbit.
- Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
- Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset. What is anything in life compared to peace of soul?
- 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.
- Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on! hold fast! hold out! Patience is genius.Count De BuffonCommonly attributed
- No great thing is created suddenly.
- No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.
- No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
- Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him to prepare the world for his coming.
- Nothing important comes into being overnight; even grapes and figs need time to ripen.
- Often the best decisions have no immediate payoff. The best choices tend to compound. Most of the benefits come at the end, not the beginning. The more patient you are, the bigger the payoff.
- Once you learn patience, your options suddenly expand.
- One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.
- Patience and gentleness are power.
- Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
- Patience can't be acquired overnight. It's just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.Eknath EaswaranSourced
- Patience expands your options. If you insist on immediate gratification, your choices are severely limited.
- Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.Benjamin DisraeliSourced
- Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
- Patience is more important to success than brilliance.
- Patience is not just a virtue; it’s a strategy. Success often requires waiting for the right moment to act.
- Patience is not passive, on the contrary, it is concentrated strength.
- Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.
- Patience is the art of hoping.
- Patience is the support of weakness; impatience is the ruin of strength.
- Patience serves against insults as clothes do against the cold; since if you multiply your clothes as the cold increases, the cold cannot hurt you.
- Patient waiting is often the highest way of doing God’s will.
- People of integrity expect to be believed. They also know time will prove them right and are willing to wait.
- Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time.
- Power is so characteristically calm that calmness in itself has the aspect of power. And forbearance implies strength.
- Rome was not built in one day.
- Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.
- Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.Henry Wadsworth LongfellowCommonly attributed
- In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
- Success requires both urgency and patience. Be urgent about making the effort, and patient about seeing the results.
- The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.Fred BrooksSourced
- The crutch of Time accomplishes more than the club of Hercules.