Famous Quotes

"Patience and time do more than strength or passion."

Jean de La Fontaine on Patience

More quotes about Patience

• "Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity."

  Carl Jung on Patience

• "Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come."

  Robert H. Schuller on Patience

• "Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success."

  Napoleon Hill on Patience

• "We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world."

  Helen Keller on Patience

• "How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"

  William Shakespeare on Patience

More quotes by Jean de La Fontaine

• "By the work one knows the workman."

• "It is impossible to please all the world and one's father."

• "Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go."

• "Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them."

• "Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire."