Michael Caine Quotes

I have to be calm and go slowly, and above all, keep working hard.

I worked with patience which means almost power.

There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.

Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.

Grace under pressure.

You have to have faith and confidence in yourself, that you are better than the bad guys you're dealing with. You have to have a lot of patience.

Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength.

It's a matter of will. If you know that you can keep your head, and that you must keep your head, you probably will keep your head.

What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice.

Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

Possess your soul with patience.

Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you.

Strength comes from waiting.

To lose patience is to lose the battle.

Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals.

Yield not thy neck To fortunes yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance.

Patient acceptance is often considered a weak and passive response to problems that we do not have the power or courage to solve. In reality, however, being patient is far from being passive. There is nothing strong or courageous in reacting to hardship or insults with anger - all we are doing is being defeated by our delusions.

Patience and submission are very carefully to be distinguished from cowardice and indolence. We are not to repine, but we may lawfully struggle; for the calamities of life, like the necessities of Nature, are calls to labor and diligence.

patience is an integral part of talent.

In your patience ye are strong.

What is the definition of guts? Grace under pressure.

A fundamental mistake to call vehemence and rigidity strength! A man is not strong who takes convulsion-fits; though six men cannot hold him then. He that can walk under the heaviest weight without staggering, he is the strong man . . . A man who cannot hold his peace, till the time come for speaking and acting, is no right man.

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.