Quotes About Patience

Delay is preferable to error.

The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches. We must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

Kalau marah, berhitunglah sampai sepuluh sebelum berbicara, atau bahkan seratus kalau sedang marah sekali.

When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

When angry, count to 10 before you speak. If very angry, a hundred.

No te mates, Clara —dijo—. Si lo haces, nunca sabrás el final.

There is a time for every thing under the sun. You may as well dine first, and be miserable afterwards.

Das Gute kommt immer zu spät, immer wird es zu spät fertig, wenn man sich nicht mehr recht darüber freuen kann.

One could say that someone who does nothing but wait is like a glutton whose digestive system processes great masses of food without extracting any useful nourishment. One could go further and say that just as undigested food does not strengthen a man, time spent in waiting does not age him.

It's hard to keep going when it seems like you're not getting anywhere, but you'll never succeed if you stop. Those of us with a dream that seems so far from being realized must remember that the road is long, but only those who stay on the path will reach their destination.

One can say that he consumed one whole week waiting for the return of that single hour every seven days—and waiting means racing ahead, means seeing time and the present not as a gift, but as a barrier, denying and negating their value, vaulting over them in your mind. Waiting, people say, is boring. But in actuality, it can just as easily be diverting, because it devours quantities of time without our ever experiencing or using them for their own sake.

Il bene viene sempre troppo tardi, diventa realtà troppo tardi, quando non si è più capaci di goderne.

He may have been waiting a long while, in snow or rain, yet his joy at my final appearance knows no resentment at my faithlessness, though I have neglected him all day and brought his hopes to naught.

De même qu'un aliment non digéré ne fortifie pas un homme, de même le temps que l'on a passé à attendre ne le vieillit pas.

Was heisst denn auch unerträglich, wenn's doch ertragen werden muss und gar nichts anderes übrigbleibt, als es zu tragen, solange der Mensch bei Sinnen ist?

Oui, lorsqu'on surveille le temps, il passe très lentement. J'aime beaucoup la température, quatre fois par jour, parce que, à ce moment, on se rend vraiment compte de ce que c'est en réalité qu'une minute ou même sept minutes, alors que des sept jours d'une semaine, on ne fait ici aucun cas, ce qui est affreux.

Also Ruhe, Geduld, Mannszucht, messen, essen, liegen, abwarten und Tee trinken.

El reposo es el primer deber del ciudadano, y la impaciencia no hace más que perjudicarle.

But even those five-and-forty minutes were too long, the bored me --and boredom is the coldest thing in the world.

Nicht alles, was langwierig ist, ist langweilig.' (Thomas Mann to his prospective publisher, in reference to the MS of the novel Buddenbrooks - cited by the Thomas Mann Buddenbrookhaus in Lübeck).

Se dice que esperar es siempre largo. Pero también es igualmente corto, porque se devoran cantidades de tiempo sin que se las viva ni se las utilice en sí mismas.

m. He has waited so long-and we all know what torture waiting can be! His whole life is waiting-waiting for the next walk in the open, a waiting that begins as soon as he is rested from the last one. Even his night consists of waiting; for his sleep is distributed throughout the whole twenty-four hours of the day, with many a little nap on the grass in the garden, the sun shining down warm on his coat, or behind the curtains of his kennel, to break up and shorten the empty spaces of the day.