Menander Quotes

Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.

The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling. (Varys)

Accept the long night patiently, quietly, humbly, and resignedly as intended for your true good. It is not a punishment for sin committed but an instrument of annihilating egoism.

Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.

Being patient means to welcome wholeheartedly whatever arises.

Though God take the sunne out of the Heaven, yet we must have patience.

Ma'alesh; no matter; never mind; what can you do but accept things as they are? Ma'alesh, your pot overturned in the fire; ma'alesh, your prize mare died; ma'alesh, you lost all your possessions and half your family. The word was the everyday essence of Islam - which itself, after all, means "submission.

I have always believed that you win fights round by round.

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.

The man who runs may fight again.

Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances.

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.

If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.

To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.

We've had some tough times, but we've hung in there.

Prolonged endurance tames the bold.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

Hunker down like a jackass in a hail storm and wait till the wind stops blowing.

I've been fighting for a long time.

It's that kind of Dublin mentality: you just have to grin and bear some things.

I've had to fight through a lot of adversity, but I just kept fighting.

I wanted to look like Mike Tyson. But then I started to realize, in a twelve round fight, you must be patient.

Within all of us there is a storm. Some believe it will never end: but he who has faith in the heavens above will weather any storm.