patience Quotes

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

People are always asking for the latest developments in the unification of this theory with that theory, and they don't give us a chance to tell them anything about one of the theories that we know pretty well. They always want to know things that we don't know.

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

The special ops guys and the firefighters around the world have this great phrase. They say, 'Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast,' and that is true. Everything I've accomplished in my life has been because of that attitude.

A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last.

We've had three big ideas at Amazon that we've stuck with for 18 years, and they're the reason we're successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.