Quotes on patience
This hasn’t been the best year for many of us. Gas prices are up. Wages are down. Bank fees are up. Housing values are down. Expenses are up. Employment opportunities are down. If you have a job, no matter how unpleasant, you’re pretty much stuck with it until times improve. If you don’t … well, best of luck to you. And when we look for answers what’s the best anyone seems to provide?
Be patient.
Things will turn around. Be patient. The economy is showing signs of recovery. Be patient. The market is rebounding. Be patient. Housing sales are creeping up. Be patient.
Unfortuately, patience is as lacking for Average Joe and Jane these days as money in the bank. If you’re having trouble learning to bide your time, think about these insights:
“All human wisdom is summed up on two words: wait and hope. ”
—Alexandre Dumas
“Our patience will achieve more than our force.”
—Edmund Burke, philosopher and politician
“Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.”
—Hyman Rickover, U.S. Navy Admiral
“Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.”
—Titus Maccius Plautus, Roman dramatist
“How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees.”
—William Shakespeare
“Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.”
—George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, naturalist and mathematician
“Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.”
—Source unknown
“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. ”
—Aristotle
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