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Lao Tzu
Lao Tzu
500 BC

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
·1870

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
·1736·Philadelphia

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Aesop
Aesop

Slow and steady wins the race.

Lao Tzu
Lao Tzu
·500 BC

Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself?

Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
·1790

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Confucius
Confucius
·490 BC·State of Wei

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Matsuo Bashō
Matsuo Bashō
·1686

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
·1762

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Hippocrates
Hippocrates
·400 BC

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.

Confucius
Confucius
·492 BC·State of Song

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Plutarch
Plutarch

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
·1858·Freeport

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte
·1815

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Hippocrates
Hippocrates
·-400 AD

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
·1844·Boston

Life is a journey, not a destination.

Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
·1749·Philadelphia

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
·1904

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.

Seneca
Seneca
·65 AD

It is to this law that our souls must adjust themselves, this they should follow, this they should obey. Whatever happens, assume that it was bound to happen, and do not be willing to rail at Nature. That which you cannot reform, it is best to endure, and to attend uncomplainingly upon the God under whose guidance everything progresses; for it is a bad soldier who grumbles when following his commander.

Lao Tzu
Lao Tzu
·600 BC

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try, the world is beyond the winning.

John Paul Jones
John Paul Jones
·1778

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

Lao Tzu
Lao Tzu
·500 BC·Luoyang

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett
·1989·Omaha, Nebraska, USA

Time is the friend of the wonderful business, the enemy of the mediocre.

Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
·1836·Bahia, Brazil

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
·1941·War Rooms

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Chanakya
Chanakya

Don't judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, because time has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond.