Patience
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- The day you plant the seed is not the day you eat the fruit.
- The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
- The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.
- The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.
- The man who is in a hurry to see the full effects of his own tillage must cultivate annuals, and not forest trees.
- The most useful form of patience is persistence. Patience implies waiting for things to improve on their own. Persistence implies keeping your head down and continuing to work when things take longer than you expect.
- The principal part of faith is patience.
- The real secret of patience is to find something to do in the meantime.
- The sharpest sting of adversity it borrows from our own impatience.
- The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.
- The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
- The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
- There are two ways of attaining an important end--force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.
- There is a frightful interval between the seed and the timber.
- There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
- There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.
- There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.
- There is no well-doing, no godlike doing, that is not patient doing.
- They also serve who only stand and wait.
- To be able to bear provocation is, an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.
- To have patience is to have confidence in the future.
- To know how to wait is the great secret of success.
- Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
- True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant, and the censures of the malignant.
- Waiting is the hardest work of hope.
- What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.
- When our hopes break, let our patience hold.
- Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him. Haste and hurry are very different things.
- Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul.
- Wisdom is not the purchase of a day, and it is no wonder that we should err at the first setting off.
- Wisely, and slow; they stumble that run fast.
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Work well and wait; Impatience spoils the Sowing; Don't dig up Seeds to see if they are Growing.
- You have a choice between what you want now and what you want most. Don’t let feeling good today come at the expense of the decade. Be patient. Keep the end in mind.