Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes

Let us love temperately, things violent last not.

My dad probably gave me the best advice growing up. I think it's really just keeping your cool in situations and learning to balance everything.

I try to keep an even keel.

The most important thing is to just stay constant and not get too high or too low.

I have a long fuse.

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of a calm person. He was very composed and I never saw anger in him. To me, that was fascinating.

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.

You can be still and still moving. Content even in your discontent.

When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root of all quietness and assurance forever.

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.

To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.

I'm patient.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.

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

We're about moderation.

Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever.

Patience is also a form of action.

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity

Patience is a virtue in life, of course, but it's not something we F1 people have too much of.

The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.