Quotes About Patience

It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

In politics one should not expect big jumps. Everything takes time.

I am the Jesus Christ of politics. I am a patient victim, I put up with everyone, I sacrifice myself for everyone.

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.

Politics is a game requiring great coolness.

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.

Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.

I'll be like Scarlett O'Hara-I'll think about it tomorrow.

It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win.

Some of the jam we thought was for tomorrow, we've already eaten

Hillary Clinton follows a cardinal rule in politics - don't commit to a decision before you have to.

If you're in the penaut business you learn to think small.

I never leave a game before the last pitch, because in baseball, as in life and especially politics, you never know what will happen.

If you started a business when Christ was born and lost $1 million a day, it would still take another 700 years before you lost $1 trillion.

Sometimes in international politics, the better part of wisdom is to defer dangers rather than try to eliminate them altogether instantly.

No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.

Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.