Patience

Little by little, one travels far. J. R. R.

In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange.

Waiting is still an occupation. It is not having anything to wait for that is terrible.

The greatest prayer is patience.

He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

Everything comes to he who hustles while he waits.

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

Nothing in the world is so rare as a person one can always put up with.

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.

One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.

All human wisdom is summed up in these two words— Wait and Hope .

If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.

No road is too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; and no honors are too distant for the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.

Genius is eternal patience.

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.

Let nothing trouble you, nothing frighten you. All things are passing; God never changes. Patient endurance attains all things. Whoever possesses God lacks nothing: God alone suffices.

A l’aurore, armés d’une ardente patience, nous entrerons aux splendides villes.