Wade Davis Quotes

Whatever you're doing, you must have patience.

Who longest waits most surely wins.

Time changes everything, but with patience we can keep our desires relatively constant. If we can just hang on long enough, time will eventually create for us the conditions in which we can succeed.

My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.

I have always believed that you win fights round by round.

Ideally, I'm also sending a message that everything passes, even hope, and sometimes you have to be patient while you wait for it to come back around again.

I know a dramatic role is going to happen, but you just got to be patient, you know? It's going to happen when it's supposed to happen. I'm not rushing it. I'm not trying to make it happen tomorrow.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

I will work and get ready and perhaps my time will come.

I think if you just hang in there long enough and keep doing what you know is your sweet spot, I think the world eventually catches up to you.

You've just got to stay grounded, keep your head down, keep pushing and, when someone does call and wants you, be ready for your opportunity.

The guys I came up with would always tell me that no matter if we're up or down, if you go in, get in there and play hard. But just know that sometimes you just have to be patient and wait your turn.

I've always believed in myself, and it's such a long competition over two days, you can't worry about what anyone else is doing.

Personally, I've learned about perseverance: when you hear the word 'No,' and when you hear rejection, that it's not always final. And that timing is everything, and you have to stay the course and just keep working hard and know that, when your time comes, that it will be sweet and that it will be the perfect time.

Greatness comes to those who wait.

I wanted to look like Mike Tyson. But then I started to realize, in a twelve round fight, you must be patient.

If you're patient and you wait long enough, something will usually happen and it'll usually be something you don't like.

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

Life is long. Just because you don't get your chance right when you want or expect it doesn't mean it won't come. Fate doesn't punch a time clock or consult a schedule.

Everything comes to him who knows how to wait.

Do the work and then let the rest speak for itself and know that it feels personal, I knew it for me when I was younger. It all feels so personal, but if it's for you, it's for you. And if it's not, that's okay because the other door will open. The right door will open.

If the biographer gives me credit for being a plodder, he will describe me justly. Anything beyond this will be too much. I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.

You develop patience that enables you to wait gracefully and gratefully until the best arrives because you know it will.

At the end of the day, the only thing I can do is keep working on it, keep giving myself chances, and it's going to happen.

Patient endurance / Attaineth to all things.