Quotes About Patience

Everything valuable takes time, there are no overnight successes.

Success is achieved in inches, not miles.

Success is the result of a delicate balance between making things happen and letting things happen.

Whether it's marriage of business, patience is the first rule of success.

It takes three years to be an overnight success, sometimes more.

Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.

Monsieur Man-in-a-hurry, you can find me without running—ME, you understand?

As for Porthos, I believe him to be eternal, like God, although less patient.

Rien n'est plus courageux qu'un cœur patient.

Si ha sempre fretta di essere felici, signor Danglars, perchè quando uno ha sofferto a lungo, stenta a credere alla felicità.

My dearest,' said Valentine, 'has the count not just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words – "wait" and "hope"?

Never did a man deeply in love allow the clocks to go on peacefully.

All human wisdom is contained in these two words -- 'Wait and hope.

Incertitude is still hope.

No man truly in love has ever let the hands of a clock go peacefully on their way.

It is necessary ... to yield to the storm, purchase a peace, and wait patiently for better times.

Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance. Dantes

Planchet, two hours before, had asked his master for some dinner, and he had answered him with the proverb, "He who sleeps, dines." And Planchet dined by sleeping.

We are always in a hurry to be happy, M. Danglars; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.

We are always in a hurry to be happy, M. Danglars; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune. But

Vivid, pues, y sed dichosos, hijos queridos de mi corazón, y no olvidéis nunca que hasta el día en que Dios se digne descifrar el porvenir al hombre, toda la sabiduría humana estará resumida en dos palabras: ¡Confiar y esperar! Vuestro amigo, Edmundo Dantes, Conde de Montecristo.

He called successively at the abodes of Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. Neither of them had returned.

until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words, - `Wait and hope.' Your friend

Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day when God designs to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, - Wait and hope. - Edmond Dantès