We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.
Mary Antin
I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.
Thomas Edison, responding to a reporter who asked how it felt to fail 2000 times before successfully inventing the light bulb
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Soren Kierkegaard
Peaceful warriors have the patience to wait until the mud settles and the water clears. They remain unmoving until the right time, so the right action arises by itself. They do not seek fulfillment, but wait with open arms to welcome all things.
Dan Millman
Genius is eternal patience.
Michelangelo
In the struggle between the stone and the water, in time, the water wins.
Chinese Proverb
Patience will achieve more than force.
Edmund Burke
Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.
William Shakespeare
The faster you go, the shorter you are.
Albert Einstein
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
Winston Churchill
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.
Ecclesiastes 3:1
Patient waiting is often the highest way of doing God’s will.
Jeremy Collier
Let nothing disturb thee;
Let nothing dismay thee;
All things pass;
God never changes.
Patience attains
All that it strives for.
St. Teresa de Cepeda
