Quotes About Patience

I kept waiting for the book to appear. The wait grew more frustrating when my son entered school and was taught the same things I had been taught, beliefs I knew had long been sharply questioned. Since nobody else appeared to be writing the book, I finally decided to try it myself. Besides, I was curious to learn more. The book you are holding is the result.

You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.

Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.

We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

But true faith is never blind. Faith always knows. Faith always sees. Faith is able to look through the storm and see the end results. Faith will always talk the end results, instead of what exists at present.

My only enemy is time.

Patience is sorrow's salve.

TIME IS ARCHIMEDES' LEVER in investing.    Archimedes is often quoted as saying, "Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand, and I can move the earth." In investing, that lever is time. (And the place to stand, of course, is a firm and realistic investment policy.)

Collecting stones does not make fruits. (Des pierres - Cueillir - N'en fait - Des fruits)

Oysters speaking doesn''t give a pearl.

Oysters speaking doesn't give a pearl. (Les huîtres qui parlent n'ont pas de perle)

The boa digests slowly. The habit digests slowly. (Le boa digère lentement. - L'habitude digère lentement.)

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.

"In case anything turned up," which was his [Mr. Micawber's] favorite expression.

"Do not repine, my friends," said Mr. Pecksniff, tenderly. "Do not weep for me. It is chronic."

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.

When they took a young man into Tellson's London house, they hid him somewhere till he was old. They kept him in a dark place, like a cheese, until he had the full Tellson flavour and blue-mould upon him. Then only was he permitted to be seen, spectacularly poring over large books, and casting his breeches and gaiters into the general weight of the establishment.