Famous Quotes
"The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare."
More quotes about Patience
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"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 John Major
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"It is time to return to core values, time to get back to basics , to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for the others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family - and not shuffling it off on other people and the state."
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"If we want to deliver opportunity for all, we need an economy that delivers jobs for the future."
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"If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government."
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"Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence."
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"Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein."