“Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.”
Others on Patience
Alexandre Dumas
2 quotes“It is necessary ... to yield to the storm, purchase a peace, and wait patiently for better times.”
Dalai Lama
2 quotes“The enemy is the necessary condition for practicing patience.”
Anne Rice
1 quote“Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing of all.”
Aristotle
1 quote“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
Benjamin Disraeli
1 quote“Everything comes if a man will only wait.”
Charles Baudelaire
1 quote“Nothing can be done except little by little.”
Elizabeth Taylor
1 quote“It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.”
Epictetus
1 quote“No great thing is created suddenly.”
FDR
1 quote“Some people can never understand that you have to wait, even for the best of things, until the right time comes.”
George Eliot
1 quote“It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.”
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.”