Denis Waitley Quotes

All things pass... Patience attains all it strives for.

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.

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.

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

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

To Thetis, Long overdue, I know, but every often the things we most desire come only after much patience and struggle. That is a human truth, I think. Even Peleus knew that. -Seth

The patience is in the living. Time opens out to you.

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

The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range.

Talent is long patience.

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.

Who longest waits most surely wins.

There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.

I've always been slow but I'm even slower now. I'm more into the waiting, or I guess I'm more patient about the waiting.

Hope is a slow business.

Know full well that patience is the best means of succeeds.

Greatness comes with patience.

Sometimes great stuff comes quickly and sometimes it doesn't and you've got to dig in for the long haul, don't loose heart, and wait for something to come along. Which is something you learn the more you do it, that if it isn't coming straight away just hang in there and something will come.

Impatience never commanded success.

The warrior of Light perseveres in his desire, but knows he must wait for the best moment.

Patience obtains everything.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running.

Stay the course.

For he who can wait, everything comes in time.