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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
1790

“Our patience will achieve more than our force.”

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Aesop
Aesop

Slow and steady wins the race.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte
·1815

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

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.

Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
·1736·Philadelphia

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Lao Tzu
Lao Tzu
·500 BC·Hangu Pass

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

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?

Herodotus
Herodotus
·-440 AD

Force has no place where there is need of skill.

Lao Tzu
Lao Tzu
·500 BC·Hangu Pass

The best fighter is never angry.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
·1762

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
·1900

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

Hippocrates
Hippocrates
·400 BC

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
·1870

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
·1901·Minnesota

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

Confucius
Confucius
·490 BC·State of Wei

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

Confucius
Confucius
·492 BC·State of Song

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

Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
·1926·Paris, France

Grace under pressure.

Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
·1941·War Rooms

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Virgil
Virgil
·29 BCE

Relentless toil conquers all.

Benjamin Graham
Benjamin Graham
·1949

The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator.

Persius
Persius
·62 AD·Rome

He who endures, conquers.

Hannibal Barca
Hannibal Barca
·-218 AD

I will either find a way, or make one.

Meister Eckhart
Meister Eckhart
·1310·Erfurt, Germany

To the quiet mind all things are possible.

Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
·1860·Springfield

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Lucretius
Lucretius
·-55 AD

The drops of rain that fall upon the stone in course of time will wear their way through it.

Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan
·1200

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