William Howard Taft Quotes

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

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

My life lesson is just to be patient and everything will fall in place. Most of what's happened in my life is not to do with me but good people and the way things happened. So I feel it's no use stressing over anything. Let things simply happen.

Patience is a mind that is able to accept fully and happily, whatever occurs. It is much more than just gritting our teeth and putting up with things. Being patient means to welcome wholeheartedly whatever arises, having given up the idea that things should be other than what they are.

The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against. If one were able to manage this one would not need to cultivate great power; even one's presence would be healing.

I have learned to take things as they come.

You do have to be patient. Control what you can control.

Toughing out the winter is a dedication to my heritage, both in terms of not going 'soft' by kowtowing to nature's volatility and staying physically close to my family in New England. I don't run from that kind of pressure.

I take things in stride, go with the flow.

If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark.

Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress.

Patience, increasing patience

Great is the advantage of patience.

There is no situation so bad that it cannot be accepted patiently, with an open, accommodating, and peaceful heart.

Sometimes you have to let time carry you past your troubles.

Put forth thy leaf, thou lofty plane, East wind and frost are safely gone; With zephyr mild and balmy rain The summer comes serenely on; Earth, air, and sun and skies combine To promise all that's kind and fair: But thou, O human heart of mine, Be still, contain thyself, and bear.

"What is the secret of your serenity?" Said the master: "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable."

Sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.

Possess your soul with patience.

What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.

The storm will pass and the sun will rise again.

Things had a way of working out for the best when you let them run their course.

You have to take everything as it comes.

Set not thyself to attain much rest, but much patience.

In a troubled state we must do as in foul weather upon a river, not think to cut directly through, for the boat may be filled with water; but rise and fall as the waves do, and give way as much as we conveniently can.