Showing posts with label patience. Show all posts
Showing posts with label patience. Show all posts

Sunday, October 23, 2022

Post #3147

Accustom yourself to that which you bear ill, and you will bear it well.
—Seneca

Wednesday, August 08, 2018

Post #2628

To endure is greater than to dare.
—William Makepeace Thackeray

Monday, January 22, 2018

Post #2496

Patience is the ballast of the soul, that will keep it from rolling and tumbling in the greatest storms: and he, that will venture out without this to make him sail even and steady will certainly make shipwreck, and drown himself; first, in the cares and sorrows of this world; and, then, in perdition.
—Ezekiel Hopkins 

Friday, December 15, 2017

Post #2470

Patience—in patience there is safety.
—Édouard RenĂ© de Laboulaye

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Post #2076

A man of quick and active wit
For drudgery is more unfit,
Compared to those of duller parts,
Than running nags are to draw carts.
—Samuel Butler

Friday, June 12, 2015

Post #1835

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.
 —Horace Bushnell

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Post #1753

Affairs succeed by patience, and he that is hasty falleth headlong.
—Sa'di

Friday, January 30, 2015

Post #1740

If the wicked flourish and thou suffer, be not discouraged. They are fatted for destruction; thou are dieted for health.
—Thomas Fuller

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Post #1728

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience is the ruin of strength.
—Charles Caleb Colton

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Post #1688

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
—Plautus

Monday, September 01, 2014

Post #1631

A wise man takes a step at a time; he establishes one foot before he takes up the other: an old place should not be forsaken recklessly.
—Sanskrit

Monday, August 04, 2014

Post #1611

Us old buzzards can spot a dying mouse from 10,000 feet up. Us old buzzards have the sharpest eyes in creation. Right now I'm studying the terrain.
—Senator Seabright Cooley (played by Charles Laughton in Advise and Consent)

Thursday, April 17, 2014

Post #1524

Do not expect the ship to return loaded with precious treasures, without being exposed to the stormy deep.
—Pietro Metastasio

Wednesday, April 02, 2014

Post #1513

Patience is an even sea in all winds.
— Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer

Saturday, November 23, 2013

Post #1413

If knowledge is power, patience is powerful.
—Robert Hall

Friday, October 05, 2012

Post #1078

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Monday, June 18, 2012

Post #981

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
—Robert Frost

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Post #870

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
—Hippocrates

Saturday, February 11, 2012

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Post #708

Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small.
—Friedrich von Logau

The Penalty of Leadership

In every field of human endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity. Whether the leadership be vested in a man or in a manufactured product, emulation and envy are ever at work. In art, in literature, in music, in industry, the reward and the punishment are always the same. The reward is widespread recognition; the punishment, fierce denial and detraction. When a man’s work becomes a standard for the whole world, it also becomes a target for the shafts of the envious few. If his work be mediocre, he will be left severely alone – if he achieve a masterpiece, it will set a million tongues a -wagging. Jealousy does not protrude its forked tongue at the artist who produces a commonplace painting. Whatsoever you write, or paint, or play, or sing, or build, no one will strive to surpass or to slander you unless your work be stamped with the seal of genius. Long, long after a great work or a good work has been done, those who are disappointed or envious, continue to cry out that it cannot be done. Spiteful little voices in the domain of art were raised against our own Whistler as a mountebank, long after the big world had acclaimed him its greatest artistic genius. Multitudes flocked to Bayreuth to worship at the musical shrine of Wagner, while the little group of those whom he had dethroned and displaced argued angrily that he was no musician at all. The little world continued to protest that Fulton could never build a steamboat, while the big world flocked to the river banks to see his boat steam by. The leader is assailed because he is a leader, and the effort to equal him is merely added proof of that leadership. Failing to equal or to excel, the follower seeks to depreciate and to destroy – but only confirms once more the superiority of that which he strives to supplant. There is nothing new in this. It is as old as the world and as old as human passions – envy, fear, greed, ambition, and the desire to surpass. And it all avails nothing. If the leader truly leads, he remains – the leader. Master-poet, master-painter, master-workman, each in his turn is assailed, and each holds his laurels through the ages. That which is good or great makes itself known, no matter how loud the clamor of denial. That which deserves to live — lives.
written by Theodore F. MacManus

A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.

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