Quotes About Patience

It's time for everyone to acknowledge that the term "long-term investor" is redundant. A long-term investor is the only kind of investor there is. Someone who can't hold on to stocks for more than a few months at a time is doomed to end up not as a victor but as a victim.

No compre nunca una acción inmediatamente después de una subida sustancial, ni tampoco la venda inmediatamente después de una bajada sustancial».

He could wait, because hatred is patient.

Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.

Enemies come soon enough in a mans life,' he told me, 'you don't need to seek them out

Choose your battles," I snarled at Æthelstan. "That space between your ears was given so that you can think! If you just charge whenever you see an enemy you'll earn yourself an early grave.

The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away," Baird said, "and you don't piddle away your damned life because you don't like His dispositions.

Hurry up and do nothing, that was the army's way of doing things.

There's no point in kicking a wild bee's nest, not unless you're determined to get the honey.

Enemies come soon in man's life, you don't need to seek them out.

Choose your battles,' I snarled at Æthelstan. 'That space between your ears was given so that you can think! If you just charge whenever you see an enemy you'll earn yourself an early grave.' Lord Uhtred of Bebbanburg

If you wait for certainty in war, lord king, you'll die waiting.

I'm willing to tell you. I'm wanting to tell you. I'm waiting to tell you.

Je n'ai jamais compris comment les guerres pouvaient faire tant de morts quand les chocs frontaux y sont finalement si rares. Je n'ai jamais plus admiré un récit de guerre qu'Hommage à la Catalogne de George Orwell parce qu'il raconte, justement, cette loi de l'attente et de la patience qui est la loi no 1 des combattants. (ch. 12 Les mots de la guerre)

What matters most to me, is that I know how I feel, and the rest of the world might catch up one day, even if it'll be a quiet revolution over longer than my lifetime, if it happens at all

Stout Gudleif kneeled and spiked the shaft of his spear into the ground, then dug into the fresh snow with his hands and formed a snowball. The snow crunched softly as he pressed it. Gudleif looked to Mandred, and the jarl nodded. The snowball flew in a wide arc into the bush. Nothing moved.

In de schaduw van de toekomst kan een leven niet tot bloei komen.

What do you want now? Your whole life in one hour?

Pensei que, quando se deixa passar o momento certo, quando alguém recusou algo tempo de mais, quando nos é recusado algo tempo de mais, esse algo chega forçosamente demasiado tarde mesmo que seja realmente desejado com força e acolhido com alegria.

Ou não há 'tarde demais', apenas 'tarde', sendo 'tarde' de qualquer modo melhor do que 'nunca'?

What is it?' 'Nothing,' he said, and put his arm around her. 'You sighed.' 'I'd like to be further along than I am.' She snuggled against his side. 'I know that feeling. But don't we make progress in fits and starts? Nothing happens for a long time, then suddenly we get a surprise, have an encounter, reach a decision point, and we're no longer the same as we were before.

Ich dachte, wenn die rechte Zeit verpaßt ist, wenn einer etwas zu lange verweigert hat, wenn einem etwas zu lange verweigert wurde, kommt es zu spät, selbst wenn es schließlich mit Kraft angegangen und mit Freude empfangen wird. Oder gibt es zu spät nicht, gibt es nur spät, und ist spät allemal besser als nie? Ich weiß es nicht.

No man treats a motorcar as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying behavior to sin; he does not say, 'You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go.' He attempts to find out what is wrong and to set it right.

Patience and boredom are closely related. Boredom, a certain kind of boredom, is really impatience. You don't like the way things are, they aren't interesting enough for you, so you deccide- and boredom is a decision-that you are bored.