Patience

A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson, 1900 - 1965

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we are driven out of Paradise; because of impatience we cannot return.
- Franz Kafka, 1883 - 1924

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
- Hyman G. Rickover, 1900 - 1986

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, 1533 - 1592

Patience is the companion of wisdom.
- Augustine of Hippo, 354 - 430

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
- Laurence J. Peter, 1919 - 1990