Howard Zinn Quotes

Infinite patience gets you immediate results.

Good things come to those who have patience and take consistent, persistent actions toward what they want.

Before success comes patience... when we add to our accomplishments the element of hard work over a long period of time, we'll place a far greater value on the outcome. When we are patient, we'll have a greater appreciation of our success.

Life’s a marathon, not a sprint.

Impatience asks for the impossible, wants to reach the goal without the means of getting there. The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.

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

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day

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

How you start is important, very important, but in the end it is how you finish that counts. It is easier to be a self-starter than a self-finisher. The victor in the race is not the one who dashes off swiftest but the one who leads at the finish. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter in life's race. In America we breed many hares but not so many tortoises.

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

Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way.

Slow and steady wins the race, and I believe in paying your dues.

Infinite Patience brings Immediate Results.

Slow and steady wins the race. 'The hare and the tortoise

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.

Patience and perserverance will accomplish more in this world than a brilliant dash. Remember that when something goes wrong.

Impatience never commanded success.

'Tis true there is much to be done, . . . but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects, for constant dropping wears away stones . . . and little strokes fell great oaks, as Poor Richard says. . . .

It takes a while. It's gonna take you a while. It's normal to take a while. You just have to fight your way through that.

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

Remember that the most difficult tasks are consummated, not by a single explosive burst of energy or effort, but by the constant daily application of the best you have within you.

Patience wins the race.

Now I know that patience and time can do more than even strength and passion. The years of frustration are ready to be harvested. All that I have managed to accomplish, and all that I hope to accomplish, has been and will be by that plodding, patient, persevering process which builds the ant heap, particle by particle, thought by thought, step by step.

There is no royal road to anything, one thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.