“The enemy is the necessary condition for practicing patience.”

“Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!”

“Nothing can be done except little by little.”

“Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their...”

“If you have nothing left to want, then you just wait. Until there's nothing left to wait for.”

“It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.”

“When you live for many hundreds of years, you know that every opportunity will come again.”

“No great thing is created suddenly.”

“Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.”

“Some people can never understand that you have to wait, even for the best of things, until the right time comes.”

“That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.”

“It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.”