Quotes About Patience

Self-Control must needs be made up of Patience, the ability to keep Still when you feel like Talking right out, and the iron holding down of your own Self for the sake of the Bigger Hours. No man ever won anything without first winning Himself. You are a strong Human bundle of Passion, Red Pepper — and Power. Your Mixing of these things in wise proportion and mastering them will mold you into a sure Success. Try, for — You can Be what you Will, if you Will to Be.

Nu astepta - niciodata nu va fi momentul potrivit.

Learn to Wait. Not idly, but with the spirit of Busyness in your system working itself out into some useful Endeavor. For to know HOW to Wait is to master one of the greatest secrets of Success.

Happiness is always just around the bend; always in sight but just out of reach.

Some business bets in which one wins big but infrequently, yet loses small but frequently, are worth making if others are suckers for them and if you have the personal and intellectual stamina.

One general, Fabius Maximus was nicknamed Cunctator, "the Procrastinator." He drove Hannibal, who had an obvious military superiority, crazy by avoiding and delaying engagement.

What fools call wasting time is most often the best investment.

Many people labor in life under the impression that they are doing something right, yet they may not show solid results for a long time. They need a capacity for continuously adjourned gratification to survive a steady diet of peer cruelty without becoming demoralized.

Missing a train is only painful if you run after it. Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that is what you are seeking.

My declared approach was to try to make money infrequently.

The world is split between those who don't know how to start making money and those who don't know when to stop.

For Seneca, the Stoic sage should withdraw from public efforts when unheeded and the state is corrupt beyond repair. It is wiser to wait for self-destruction

Most mistakes get worse when you try to correct them.

Not understanding that doing nothing can be much more preferable to doing something potentially harmful.

the truth came out eventually, and his mission ended up paying off, with some delay.

The longer we had to wait for it, the more severe it would be.

in absence of much additional information it is preferable to reserve one's judgment.

the only effective judge of things is time

they have what is lacking in the young:

Consider the situation where the dentist examines his portfolio only upon receiving the monthly account from the brokerage house. As 67% of his months will be positive, he incurs only four pangs of pain per annum and eight uplifting experiences. This is the same dentist following the same strategy. Now consider the dentist looking at his performance only every year. Over the next 20 years that he is expected to live, he will experience 19 pleasant surprises for every unpleasant one!

People confuse science and scientists. Science is great, but individual scientists are dangerous. They are human; they are marred by the biases humans have. Perhaps even more. For most scientists are hard-headed, otherwise they would not derive the patience and energy to perform the Herculean tasks asked of them, like spending eighteen hours a day perfecting their doctoral thesis.

anything that takes you away from the doctor and allows you to do nothing (hence gives nature a chance to do its work) will be beneficial.

Most people give up before the rewards.

many people become long-term investors after they lose money, postponing