You can't have genius without patience.
~ Margaret Deland
The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait.
~ Iris Murdoch
How poor are they that have not patience? What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
~ William Shakespeare
All things come round to him who will but wait.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Panic is not an effective long-term organizing strategy.
~ Starhawk
Self-denial is painful for a moment but very agreeable in the end.
~ Jane Taylor
And he shall reign a goodly king And sway his hand o'er every clime With peace writ on his signet ring Who bides his time.
~ James Whitcomb Riley
It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well.
~ Joseph Ross
Patience and fortitude conquer all things.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be not afraid of growing slowly be afraid only of standing still.
~ Chinese Proverb
Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.
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.
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.
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
It's incredibly difficult to keep a healthy body image in this business.
~ Courtney Thorne-Smith
Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.
~ Carl Von Clausewitz
While I've had plenty of ups and downs, dealt with my share of failure, and struggled through emotionally difficult periods, I'm fundamentally an optimist.
~ Brad Feld
Success is more difficult to handle than failure.
~ Ravi Zacharias
Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.
~ Sarah Mclachlan
