“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.”
Søren Kierkegaard
1 quote“Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.”
FDR
1 quote“Some people can never understand that you have to wait, even for the best of things, until the right time comes.”
Thornton Wilder
1 quote“That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.”
George Eliot
1 quote“It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.”
William Faulkner
1 quote“And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.”
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.”