Echoes

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.

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?

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Slow and steady wins the race.

Force has no place where there is need of skill.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

We have a given problem to solve. If we undertake the solution, there is, of course, always danger that we may not solve it aright; but to refuse to undertake the solution simply renders it certain that we cannot possibly solve it aright.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

In war, numbers alone confer no advantage. Do not advance relying on sheer military power.

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.

An action committed in anger is an action doomed to failure.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

The best fighter is never angry.

I have always been fond of the West African proverb "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."

You may never know what results come of your actions. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.

For if he who resolveth bravely oftentimes falleth short, how shall it be with him who resolveth rarely or feebly?

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

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

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