Brandon Sanderson Quotes

Spare your breath to cool your porridge.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

I always believe in going hard at everything, whether it is Latin or mathematics, boxing or football, but at the same time I want to keep the sense of proportion. It is never worth while to absolutely exhaust one's self or to take big chances unless for an adequate object. I want you to keep in training the faculties which would make you, if the need arose, able to put your last ounce of pluck and strength into a contest. But I do not want you to squander these qualities.

One stroke fells not an oke.

Keep what you've got till you get what you need, y'all. You gotta give a lot just to get what you need sometimes, y'all.

Patience et longueur de temps Font plus que force ni que rage. Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.

The crutch of Time accomplishes more than the club of Hercules.

Don't be impatient when it takes too long. Or drink it all even when it tastes to strong.

Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.

Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.

Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

Prolonged endurance tames the bold.

It took 10 months for me to learn to tie a lace; I must have howled with rage and frustration. But one day I could tie my laces. That no one can take from you. I profoundly distrust the pedagogy of ease.

Keep your head up and be patient.

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.

The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.