Famous Quotes

"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."

John Quincy Adams on Patience

More quotes about Patience

• "Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity."

  Carl Jung on Patience

• "Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come."

  Robert H. Schuller on Patience

• "Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success."

  Napoleon Hill on Patience

• "We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world."

  Helen Keller on Patience

• "How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"

  William Shakespeare on Patience

More quotes by John Quincy Adams

• "Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost."

• "Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."

• "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it."

• "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it."

• "The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity."