Quotes About Patience

Beware of desp'rate steps; the darkest day lived till tomorrow will have pass'd away.

Clay lies still, but blood's a rover Breath's a ware that will not keep. Up lad: when the journey's over There'll be time enough to sleep.

Someday the sun is going to shine down on me in some faraway place.

If the mountain won't come to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to the mountain.

One cannot judge 'Lohengrin' from a first hearing, and I certainly do not intend to hear it a second time.

Harpists spend half their life tuning and the other half playing out of tune.

When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

The nearer the dawn the darker the night.

Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.

Persistence is the master virtue. Without it, there is no other.

Business is full of brilliant men who started out with a spurt and lacked the stamina to finish. Their places were taken by patient and unshowy plodders who never knew when to quit.

I work every day-or at least I force myself into my office or room. I may get nothing done, but you don't earn bonuses without putting in time. Nothing may come for three months, but you don't earn the fourth without it.

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence, but by oft falling.

The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running.

By perseverance the snail reached the Ark.

The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.

Slow and steady wins the race.

No great thing is created suddenly.

Be content to grow a little each day. If the improvement is the sort of thing which is very slow, do not measure it too often. Do a self-comparison every two weeks, or every six months, whatever is appropriate.

The way of progress is neither swift nor easy.

Make haste slowly.

Slow motion gets you there faster.

I'm not there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday.