Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

Patience is emotional diligence.

Slow and steady wins the race.

I'll get mine in a few years, when I get up there and when the time comes.

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

The trick is to be there when it's settled.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

I will work and get ready and perhaps my time will come.

Things come to him who can wait.

But my mum told me it's not good to be jealous, just work hard and keep your head down. Wait your turn.

They also swear who only stand and wait.

Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way.

A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us.

A plodding diligence brings us sooner to our journey's end than a fluttering way of advancing by starts.

Everything comes to him who waits -- if he waits till it comes.

The only way things will happen is if people get over the notion that they must see immediate success. If they get over that notion and persist, then they will see things happen before they even realize it.

Time changes everything, but with patience we can keep our desires relatively constant. If we can just hang on long enough, time will eventually create for us the conditions in which we can succeed.

There are some people, who don’t wait.

'Tis true there is much to be done, . . . but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects, for constant dropping wears away stones . . . and little strokes fell great oaks, as Poor Richard says. . . .

Learn to labour and to wait.

He that staies does the businesse.

Never settle. There is no need to rush.

Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.