226 quotes
“No great thing 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”
— Epictetus
“The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.”
— Confucius
“The years teach much which the days never know.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Nature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished”
— Lao Tzu
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.”
— Rilke
“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“The prayer that begins with trustfulness and passes on into waiting will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise.”
— Alexander Maclaren
“Those who are certain of the outcome can afford to wait and wait without anxiety.”
— Gabby Bernstein
“Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.”
— Unknown
“No great thing 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.”
“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone”
— Alan Watts
“Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith.”
— Pope Francis
“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
— Robert Frost
“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.”
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time”
— Leo Tolstoy
“The roots of education are bitter but the fruit is sweet.”
— Aristotle
“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”
— Saint Augustine
“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know”
— Pema Chodron
“Patience is not sitting and waiting it is foreseeing and faith is the telescope through which we see the future”
— Rumi
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
“Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear”
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
“Patience is the companion of wisdom, and hope is its handmaid.”
— Augustine of Hippo
“Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“Today is hard tomorrow will be worse but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine”
— Jack Ma
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through.”
— Maya Angelou
“Adapt adjust accommodate. Bear insult bear injury. This is the highest spiritual practice.”
— Swami Sivananda
“He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.”
— Thomas Secker
“Success comes to those who work hard and know how to wait.”
— Thomas Edison
“A true friend unbosoms freely advises justly assists readily adventures boldly and takes all patiently”
— William Penn
“Hope is patience with the lamp lit.”
— Tertullian
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart.”
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time and faith enlists them both on our behalf”
“If you are irritated by every rub, how will you ever get polished?”
“The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.”
— John Berry
“There are years that ask questions and years that answer”
— Zora Neale Hurston
“Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.”
— John Quincy Adams
“I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.”
— Marie Curie
“However long the night, the dawn will break.”
— African Proverb
“The wheels of justice grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine.”
— Sextus Empiricus
“Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.”
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
“Becoming requires equal parts patience and rigor.”
— Michelle Obama
“No great thing is created suddenly.”
“The strongest of all warriors in the family are these two: Time and Patience.”
“Have patience all things are difficult before they become easy and kindness makes the difficulty bearable”
— Saadi Shirazi
“An evil deed does not turn to cream right away, but like fire covered with ashes, it follows the fool, smoldering.”
— Gautama Buddha
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
— Harriet Tubman
“Above all trust in the slow work of God.”
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“No man can have patience who has not strong passions.”
— Michel de Montaigne
“Nature never hurries, yet everything is accomplished.”
“The darkest hours are just before the dawn.”
— Thomas Fuller
“The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper and our wonder to deepen”
— Terry Pratchett
“There is no failure if you don't give up.”
“Dripping water hollows out stone not through force but through persistence.”
— Ovid
“The strongest of all warriors are these two: time and patience”
“He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly.”
“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
— Hal Borland
“Patience now will result in achievement later.”
— Anonymous
“Results are delayed rewards for repeated effort.”
— DuckyHeals
“Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things.”
— Teresa of Avila
“All human wisdom is summed up in two words wait and hope”
— Alexandre Dumas
“It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
“For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.”
“Effort never betrays. It just takes time.”
“No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.”
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. The answers will come bringing peace.”
“Time is the best doctor.”
— Yiddish Proverb
“There is only one way to eat an elephant: a bite at a time.”
— Desmond Tutu
“In every outward push of the sea is a vast and remarkable patience.”
— Rachel Carson
“Do not be afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still.”
“To those who by persistence in well-doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, he will give eternal life.”
— Paul the Apostle
“Spring comes even after the harshest winter.”
“Those who are certain of the outcome can afford to wait and wait without anxiety”
“If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day. When you reach thirty days, offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.”
“Let nothing disturb you let nothing frighten you all things are passing away God never changes patience obtains all things”
“I trained four years to run nine seconds and people give up when they do not see results in two months.”
— Usain Bolt
“Patience is the companion of wisdom, and the foundation of all great enterprises.”
— Thomas Aquinas
“It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”
“The mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small.”
— Friedrich von Logau
“Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.”
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
— Emerson
“If thou wouldst be borne with, then bear with others.”
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
“Simplicity patience compassion these three are your greatest treasures”
“The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.”
— David Storey
“Time brings all things to pass.”
— Aeschylus
“Patience achieves everything and faith makes patience possible in the face of any trial”
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
— Laozi
“All human wisdom is summed up in two words: wait and hope.”
“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
“From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.”
“Man is unjust, but God is just; and justice finally triumphs.”
“Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.”
“Nature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished and this fills the wise with wonder”
“The good general cultivates his resources and bides his time before striking.”
— Sun Tzu
“Hasten slowly and you will soon arrive at your destination”
— Milarepa
“I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy”
— Tao Te Ching
“A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.”
“The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.”
— Tokugawa Ieyasu
“Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves with faith”
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
— Theodore Parker
“Have patience with all things, but first of all with yourself.”
— Francis de Sales
“Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves with wonder”
“Patience and fortitude conquer all things.”
“Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still.”
“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
— Charles Dickens
“There are years in family life that ask questions and years that answer.”
“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.”
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
“Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.”
— Socrates
“The drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.”
— Hugh Latimer
“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves”
“Nature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished.”
“No great thing is created suddenly any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig”
“Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy. Peace is the reward of patience.”
“Act nothing in a furious passion. It is putting to sea in a storm.”
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as part of healing”
“Govern a family as you would cook a small fish — very gently.”
“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.”
— Anthony Trollope
“There is no peace without patience for peace unfolds in its own time.”
— Sophocles
“Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet”
“Time and tide wait for no man, but time always comes back with the tide.”
— Thiruvalluvar
“Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.”
— Anatole France
“Patience is the key to joy; haste is the key to sorrow.”
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. Peace is what happens when patience meets understanding.”
— Seneca
“One must learn to be patient and find that things will come to one in their own good time.”
“The big money is not in the buying or selling but in the waiting”
— Charlie Munger
“Let nothing disturb you let nothing frighten you all things are passing away but God never changes and faith is patient”
“Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.”
— Hippocrates
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. They bring peace to all things.”
“Let nothing disturb you let nothing frighten you. All things are passing away. God never changes. Patience obtains all things.”
“The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
— William Faulkner
“Patience is a habit.”
“Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.”
— Miguel de Cervantes
“Justice is not to be taken by storm she is to be wooed by slow advances”
— Benjamin Cardozo
“Time is the wisest counsellor of all.”
— Pericles
“Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.”
“Half of thankfulness is patience and half is gratitude to God.”
— Imam Ghazali
“Let nothing disturb you let nothing frighten you. All things pass away. God never changes. Patience obtains all things including peace.”
“Time heals what reason cannot.”
“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone and kindness is the patience that lets it settle”
“Even in the winter, even in the dark, the sun does not lose its strength. It merely waits to return.”
“Simplicity patience and compassion are the three greatest treasures a person can possess”
“Patience is the companion of wisdom, and hope is the path that wisdom walks.”
“Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself.”
“The journey of a thousand miles begins beneath one's feet.”
“Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury in family healing.”
— Jean de La Fontaine
“Sitting quietly doing nothing spring comes and the grass grows by itself”
— Zen Proverb
“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago”
— Warren Buffett
“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
— Thomas à Kempis
“Patience persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success”
— Napoleon Hill
“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know in our solitude”
“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves.”
“Do not be afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still.”
“Be slow to fall into friendship but when you are in continue firm and constant”
“Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime therefore we must be saved by hope.”
— Reinhold Niebuhr
“Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.”
— Plautus
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
“Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“Overcoming of anger is the basis of justice, and patience its proof.”
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
“Time doesn't solve everything, but it makes many things possible.”
“The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine.”
“Effort does not betray. But sometimes patience is needed.”
“The longest day has its end.”
“Patience is a bitter fruit, but its fruit is sweet.”
“He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“Nature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished through simplicity”
“The net of the sleeper catches fish.”
“Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience.”
“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know and wonder is the patient teacher”
“Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear.”
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