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 it first blossom then bear fruit then ripen.
~ Epictetus
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
~ Anatole France
Hold on hold fast hold out. Patience is genius.
~ Georges De Buffon
Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.
~ Benjamin Franklin
All human wisdom is summed up in two words: wait and hope.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Genius is eternal patience.
~ Michelangelo
Serene I fold my hands and wait.
~ John Burroughs
The race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong.
~ Bible
Everything comes if a man will only wait.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
~ Thomas A. Edison
The secret of patience ... to do something else in the meantime.
~ Anonymous
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.
~ Saint Francis De Sales
Let us then be up and doing With a heart for any fate Still achieving still pursuing Learn to labor and to wait.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
God will wait as long as it takes for us.
~ Reverend R. Walters
Waiting is not mere empty hoping. It has the inner certainty of reaching the goal.
~ I Ching
All things come to him who waits- provided he knows what he is waiting for.
~ Woodrow Wilson
Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all the surest reposals the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.
~ Robert Burton
The strongest of all warriors are these two-Time and Patience.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Who bides his time tastes the sweet Of honey in the saltiest tear And though he fares with slowest feet Joy runs to meet him drawing near.
~ James Whitcomb Riley
Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
There is nothing so bitter that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.
~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
~ Plautus
For ye have need of patience....
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.
~ Francis Bacon
There's no question that Kennedy was an utter failure as a passer of laws during his proverbial thousand days.
~ Rick Perlstein
What I really am is a homebody. I was a homebody even before I had a family. My days are filled with home stuff.
~ Ray Liotta
The days you work are the best days.
~ Georgia O'keeffe
The first couple of days on the detox diet aren't pleasant.
~ Carol Vorderman
A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.
~ Kin Hubbard
I don't have many sad days.
~ Billy Graham
We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.
~ Robert Hall
The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.
~ Abraham Cahan
