“However anxious one is to reach one’s goal, one can excuse delays on the route when these are caused by ovations.”
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Dalai Lama
2 quotes“The enemy is the necessary condition for practicing patience.”
Gertrude Stein
1 quote“I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.”
Gregory David Roberts
1 quote“Человек, который никуда не спешит, никуда не попадает.”
Anne Rice
1 quote“Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing of all.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1 quote“All things come round to him who will but wait.”
Aristotle
1 quote“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
John Steinbeck
1 quote“And don't worry about losing. If i is right, it happens - the main thing is not to hurry.Nothing good gets away.”
Benjamin Disraeli
1 quote“Everything comes if a man will only wait.”
Jules Verne
1 quote“Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!”
Charles Baudelaire
1 quote“Nothing can be done except little by little.”
Michel de Montaigne
1 quote“Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their...”
Neil Gaiman
1 quote“If you have nothing left to want, then you just wait. Until there's nothing left to wait for.”