William Osler Quotes

Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.

No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work.

Let us bear with magnanimity whatever it is needful for us to bear.

The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.

There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

You have to try to take what life throws at you with grace and equanimity.

I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

I don't like to complain.

The only thing I pray for is the strength to go out without complaining.

I just think about how much worse something could be, and I'm like, 'Alright, cool, whatever.' I'm nonchalant.

I learnt not to be desperate in bad times and am learning not to be bullish when times are good.

I've learned since childhood that you control only the things that you can control. Everything else, let it take care of itself.

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

That is life: you have to deal with things, and it's up to you how you deal with things. That's what makes you mature or not. If you can get the best out of yourself, that's all that matters. If you do that, nobody is arguing.

The essential idea of Stoicism in my interpretation is, you don't control the world around you, you control how you respond. At 19, that's very empowering.

I've learnt that you need to have a thick skin, lots of patience and be consistently good.

Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.

It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he cannot retain.

Can't react every time you're insulted. Free people absorb destructive things and refuse to be destroyed

It is hard to keep that which has not been obtained through personal development.