Quotes About Patience

Time is wasted because there is so much time available.

The difference between winning and losing is most often not quitting.

Oftentimes, in order to do the big things, you have to let the small bad things happen.

To find the right things, we'll need to go to the garden.

Hard feelings pass. Don't suffer fools or you'll become one.

If [more] information was the answer, then we'd all be billionaires with perfect abs.

This is another one that took me a long time to learn. Starting something doesn't automatically justify finishing it.

Porque tienes que ser humilde, y tienes que dejarte enseñar…

I can wait" ? Being able to plan long-term, play the long game, and not misallocate your resources. "I can fast" ? Being able to withstand difficulties and disaster. Training yourself to be uncommonly resilient and have a high pain tolerance.

I wish I would have known that there was no need to wait.

If you don't appreciate what you have now, you'll never appreciate what you get later.

The secret to winning any game lies in not trying too hard.

Una inversión que produce una rentabilidad financiera inmensa pero que me hace perder los nervios por completo, o me causa insomnio y berrinches durante un periodo largo de tiempo, NO es una buena inversión.

Sometimes you need to allow life to save you from getting what you want.

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly." –Mae West

So, my advice to my 30-year-old self is, don't be a donkey. You can do everything you want to do. You just need foresight and patience.

Everybody's impatient at a macro, and just so patient at a micro, wasting your days worrying about years. I'm not worried about my years, because I'm squeezing the fuck out of my seconds, let alone my days. It's going to work out.

As Brandon Stanton put it, "Sometimes you need to allow life to save you from what you want.

There is a way to get the rewards for a life of hard work without waiting until the end.

Avoid compulsively making things worse.

I didn't survive, I prepared." Nelson Mandela's answer when Tony asked him, "Sir, how did you survive all those years in prison?

The stars will never align

Let life ripen and then fall. Will is not the way at all."—Lao Tzu, from The Way of Life According to Lao Tzu

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, Frank Partnoy's Wait: The Art and Science of Delay, Linda Kaplan-Thaler's The Power of Nice: How to Conquer the Business World with Kindness and The Power of Small: Why Little Things Make All the Difference, and Cathy O'Neil's Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy.