May Sarton Quotes

Patience is not simply enduring; it is enduring well!

If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting ... if you can dream, and not make dreams your master; if you can think, and not make thoughts your aim; if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same; ... yours is the earth and everything that's in it...

Purity, patience and perseverance are the three essentials to success and above all love.

The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.

Mastery of creative tension brings out the capacity for perseverance and patience. Time is an ally.

Does what's happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforward ness, and all other qualities that allow a person's nature to fulfill itself? So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.

From adversity we can learn the value of patience.

Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne those already laid upon you well — it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently.

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.

To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

The trick is to learn to contain one's ego, not conceal it.

The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.

And again, hast thou valued Patience, Courage, Perseverance, Openness to light; readiness to own thyself mistaken, to do better next time

My mother helped me to be who I am: to have strength and not to let people run all over me and yet to be humble; to realise that all of this that I have today could be gone.

It's important to work hard, stay humble, and not let the criticism or the compliments go to your head.

I'm trying to... stay humble and keep doing what I do.

Patience is weapon. I learned that from my Laker days.

It takes a certain level of maturity to get hit and get knocked down and get back up.

The humility keeps me going forward.

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

I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything!