Thelma Drake Quotes

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

My biggest weakness is patience, wanting to see things happen too quickly or get changes in place right away. Not having the patience to let things develop.

There are three things not worth running for—a bus, a woman, or a new economic panacea; if you wait a bit, another one will come along.

Sometimes making progress a step at a time is better than no progress at all.

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

Nothing great is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or the fig is. If you say to me now that you want a fig, I will answer to you that it requires time: let it flower first, then put forth fruit, and then ripen.

The processes of growth are gradual, bearing fruit in a decade, not a day.

Practice the art of patience for nature never acts in haste.

My basic philosophy can be summed up by an expression we use in Norwegian: hurry slowly. Get there, but be patient.

Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait -- not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion.

I think there is a great deal to the idea of not doing a thing, but that when you do a thing, you don't do it in five minutes or in five hours, but in five years.

Good things come in good time.

Dripping water hollows out a stone

I developed this guiding statement to stress on the fact that every good thing takes time to develop.

Pas a pas, se va luenh. Step by step, we make our way.

There is magic in patience, you know.

Ever since man began to till the soil and learned not to eat the seed grain but to plant it and wait for harvest, the postponement of gratification has been the basis of a higher standard of living and of civilization.

Really good things take time to grow. Foundation is not built over night.

Be patient, for the world is broad and wide.

The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.

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.

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

Stick around long enough, you'll get some grace.

So be patient. Do not compromise. And give your destiny time to find you.

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