Naftali Bennett Quotes

We live in an instant-coffee world. Sometimes real-world solutions take a little longer.

Rome was not built in one day.

O time, thou must untangle this, not I. It is too hard a knot for me t'untie.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.

Our problem is that we often expect instantaneous solutions to such challenges, forgetting that frequently the heavenly virtue of patience is required.

I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.

I can solve every problem a year later.

Sometimes problems just have to sit and wait until we can see a solution.

We can't solve all of our problems in a short time.

Through every victory and every setback, I've insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn't meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.

I believe it will take time to find a solution to the problem. Thus we must have patience.

In life, worthwhile accomplishments and acquisitions take time. Usually the better the reward, the more time it takes to acquire it.

Why can't we have patience and expect good things to take time?

Sometimes the problem has to mature before the solution can mature.

We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing and wouldn't reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, "In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!

One cannot leap a chasm in two jumps.

This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be a long process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time.

You don't get everything all at once. You wait.

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

Everything valuable takes time, there are no overnight successes.