Quotes About Patience

Jack: "Gwendolen, wait here for me." Gwendolen: "If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

A volte sono depresso e non apro bocca per giorni. In quei casi, non deve pensare che sia di cattivo umore. Basta lasciarmi stare e presto mi passa.

Todo mal tienes dos remedios; el tiempo y el silencio.

When the wind blows,the grass bends.

Don't use cannon to kill musquito.

The journey with a 1000 miles begins with one step.

Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

It is only when mosquito land on your balls that you realize there is a way to solve problems without using violence.

Think of tomorrow, the past can't be mended.

The Master said, The case is like that of someone raising a mound. If he stops working, the fact that it perhaps needed only one more basketful makes no difference; I stay where I am. Whereas even if he has not got beyond leveling the ground, but is still at work, the fact that he has only tilted one basketful of earth makes no difference. I go to help him.

Who can (make) the muddy water (clear)? Let it be still, and it will gradually become clear.

Among his own country folk Confucius wore a homely look, like one that has no word to say.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Things that are done, it is needless to speak about; things that have had their course, it is needless to remonstrate about; things that are past, it is needless to blame.

Lord Chi Wen thought three times before taking any action. When the Master heard this, he said: Twice is plenty enough.

Si vos parents tombent dans une faute, avertissez-les avec grande douceur. Si vous les voyez déterminés à ne pas suivre vos avis, redoublez vos témoignages de respect, sans vous opposer. Quand même ils vous maltraiteraient, n'en ayez aucun ressentiment. 

Exige beaucoup de toi-même et attend peu des autres. Beaucoup d'ennuis te seront épargnés.

I do not open up the truth to one who is not eager to get knowledge, nor help out anyone who is not anxious to explain himself. When I have presented one corner of a subject to anyone, and he cannot from it learn the other three, I do not repeat my lesson.

It doesn't matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop

Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being acccomplished.

It doesn't matter how slowly you go as long as you don't stop.

It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop.