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