Famous Quotes

"Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience."

Laurence J. Peter 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 Laurence J. Peter

• "Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone."

• "Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret."

• "Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it."

• "Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder."

• "Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret."