Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.

Be willing to wait longer for you goals to bear fruit than you had anticipated.

One must work, nothing but work, and one must have patience.

Very often the things we most desire come only after much patience and struggle.

Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.

Not every one of our desires can be immediately gratified. We’ve got to learn to wait patiently for our dreams to come true, especially on the path we’ve chosen.

There is magic in patience, you know.

Waiting is one of life’s hardships.

My parents taught me as a kid: do your work. Do it well. Try as hard as you can, whatever it is. It will one day, for the long run, it will make some sort of change somewhere.

Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.

There's a phrase, "sitzfleisch", which means just plain sitting on your ass and getting it done. Just showing up for work. My uncle Raphael was a painter, and he used to say, "If the muse is late for work, start without her". You have to be there. You have to be there, and do it, and grind it out, even when it is grinding and you know you're probably going to rewrite all this tomorrow.

No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time.

It's hard to remain patient when it seems so debilitating to do so. The balance comes with staying ambitious while being patient.

It is said that good things come to those who wait. I believe that good things come to those who work.

It doesn't take talent to work hard.

You have to sit by the side of a river a very long time before a roast duck will fly into your mouth.

All good things to those who wait.

Talent is long patience.

Perhaps the greatest lesson which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a single word* Wait!

Infinite patience produces immediate results.

I've always been slow but I'm even slower now. I'm more into the waiting, or I guess I'm more patient about the waiting.

Nothing comes of so many things, if you have patience.

Many successful people are no more talented than unsuccessful people. The difference between them lies in the old axiom that successful people do those things that unsuccessful people don't like to do.

You can't be afraid of hard work or long hours. Sacrifice is important.