Quotes About Patience

So if you think you can time the markets, you're wrong.

You don't want to hesitate to get in the market trying to have perfect timing; instead, use dollar-cost averaging and know that volatility can be your friend

Don't do something—just stand there!

because it's really, really hard. If this was easy, if there was one formula, one way to do it, we'd all be zillionaires. One principle for sure would be get out of anything that falls below the 200-day moving average.

The race of life is a marathon, not a sprint.

Just" 1% here, 1% there. Doesn't sound like much, but compounded over time, it could be the difference between your money lasting your entire life or surviving on government or family assistance.

Of course, sitting tight is a challenge for this generation! As a society, we're wired for instant rewards, and waiting for the assets in our Security Bucket to increase in value can initially feel like watching grass grow. And that's why we get tempted into putting too much of our money into the next bucket, Risk/Growth.

Remember, the biggest challenge in investing is staying power; when markets tank, folks get scared and sell.

The day you stop racing is the day you win the race. —BOB MARLEY

Un hombre que sufre antes de que sea necesario, sufre más de lo necesario. SÉNECA

Anything worth having is worth waiting for. Love, Marilyn.

Her happiness, like that of most of us, was ever in the future,—never reached but always coming. 

Jacob was not in such a hurry when he wished for Rachel." "That was all very well for an old patriarch who had seven or eight hundred years to live." "My dear John, you forget your Bible. Jacob did not live half as long as that.

A man has usually to work through much mud before he gets his nugget.

If a cook can't make soup between two and seven, she can't make it in a week.

Oh, that that old man in Westmoreland would die and be gathered to his fathers, now that he was full of years and ripe for the sickle! But there was no sign of death about the old man.

My dear, the least said the soonest mended," said Mrs. French.

Can you shoot?" he said afterwards to Lord Gerald. "I can fire off a gun, if you mean that," said Gerald. "You have never shot much?" "Not what you call very much. I'm not so old as you are, you know. Everything must have a beginning." Mr. Dobbes wished "the beginning" might have taken place elsewhere; but there had been some truth in the remark.

Anthony Trollope

CHAPTER XLVII 'BUT THERE IS SOME ONE

But God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

If you are busy, another time will do as well," continued the bishop, whose courage, like Bob Acres', had oozed out now that he found himself on the ground of battle.

Let the Gresham or the Daubeny of the day be ever so sure that the reins of the State chariot must come into his hands, he should not visibly prepare himself for the seat on the box till he has actually been summoned to place himself there

People often say that marriage is an important thing, and should be much thought of in advance, and marrying people are cautioned that there are many who marry in haste and repent at leisure. I am not sure, however, that marriage may not be pondered over too much; nor do I feel certain that the leisurely repentance do not as often follow the leisurely marriages as it does the rapid ones. That some repent no one can doubt.