“Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot hurt you; in the same way increase your patience under great offences, and they cannot hurt your feelings.”
— Leonardo da Vinci Primary source“Patience in a market, is worth pounds in a year.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“If you took our top fifteen decisions out, we”d have a pretty average record. It wasn’t hyperactivity, but a hell of a lot of patience. You stuck to your principles and when opportunities came along, you pounced on them with vigor.”
— Charlie Munger Primary source“Many things were adopted in the war which we were told were technically impossible, but patience, perseverance, and, above all, the spur of necessity under war conditions, made men’s brains act with greater vigour, and science responded to the demands.”
— Winston Churchill Primary source“He that can have patience can have what he will.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte DisputedSuccess Insults Offences Self-Control Market