Difficult Quotes

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.

The strongest of all warriors are these two-Time and Patience.

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

God grant us patience!

William Shakespeare

Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Bible

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Plautus

For ye have need of patience....

Bible

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.

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

Self-denial is painful for a moment but very agreeable in the end.

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.

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.

William Shakespeare

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.

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.

Serene I fold my hands and wait.

The race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong.

Bible

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

Thomas A. Edison

The secret of patience ... to do something else in the meantime.

Anonymous

God will wait as long as it takes for us.

Reverend R. Walters

Time is like a river of fleeting events and its current is strong as soon as something comes into sight it is swept past us and something else takes its place and that too will be swept away.

Marcus Aurelius

Time cools time clarifies no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Time bears away all things.

Virgil

Come what come may time and the hour runs through the roughest day.

William Shakespeare

Time brings all things to pass.

Aeschylus

We undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits their sickness and their health.

Michel de Montaigne

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour whatever he does whoever he is.

That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.

Thornton Wilder

Who longest waits most surely wins.

Helen Hunt Jackson

Patience is a bitter plant but it has sweet fruit.

No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance.

Phyllis Bottome

I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Benjamin Franklin

Being human we should bear all we can.

Adopt the pace of nature her secret is patience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

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

In the darkest hour the soul is replenished and given strength to continue and endure.

Heart Warrior Chosa

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

H.G.Wells

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

Jean de La Fontaine

I've never been poor only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is a temporary situation.

Mike Todd

He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.

Yiddish Proverb

Our toil is sweet with thankfulness Our burden is our boon The curse of earth's gray morning is The blessing of its noon.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches perhaps we would endure our sadnesses with greater confidence than our joys. For they are moments when something new has entered into us something unknown.

Rainer Maria Rilke

We may draw good outof evil we must not do evil that good may come.

Maria Weston Chapman

You will find a joy in overcoming obstacles.

What we call the beginning is often an end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

T.S Eliot

Death is a door life opens.

Adela Rogers St. John

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.

Ivy Baker Priest

Perhaps someday it will be pleasant to remember even this.

Virgil

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