Quotes About Patience

He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.

Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.

This crusade, this war on terrorism is going to take a while.

Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith.

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.

No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique.

The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.

Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!

When a man is able to take abuse with a smile, he is worthy to become a leader.

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

Ponder and deliberate before you make a move.

He never gave up. And he does that for us

Do not give a war cry, do not raise your voices, do not say a word until the day I tell you to shout. Then shout!

Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain

If it is to your advantage, make a forward move; if not, stay where you are.

With regard to precipitous heights, if you are beforehand with your adversary, you should occupy the raised and sunny spots, and there wait for him to come up.

Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.

I'll come back as soon as I can with as much as I can. In the meantime, you've got to hold!

When the advice of Moscow ran counter to [Ho Chi Minh's] own ideas - as in the 1930s - he kept his head down and waited until the situation changed in his favor with the beginning of the Pacific War.

I can tell you this: If I'm ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send somebody else's kids into a war.

War in men's eyes shall be A monster of iniquity In the good time coming. Nations shall not quarrel then, To prove which is the stronger; Nor slaughter men for glory's sake; - Wait a little longer.

God's job ain't to make our lives easier, it's to make us better souls by the lessons He gives us.

My mouth always worked a whole lot faster than my good sense.

God's job ain't to make our lives easier, it's to make us better souls by the lessons he give us.