Learn to labor and to wait.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming.

A patient man will eat ripe fruit.

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

Two of the hardest tests in life: The patience to wait for the right moment and the courage to accept whatever you encounter.

Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence—natural ability notwithstanding.

No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owning more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is. waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

The past is memory. The future is imagination. All that exists is now.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the now the primary focus of your life.

Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment.

Time makes more converts than reason.

If you develop a pure and sincere motivation, in you are motivated by a wish to help on the basis of kindness, compassion, and respect, then you can carry on any kind of work, in any field, and function more effectively.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

One who is serious all day will never have a good time, while one who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.

There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take for better, for worse, as his portion; that, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature; these are the spur and reins whereby al mankind are set on work, and guided.

Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do, you'll put a torch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces. You'll love it into greatness, you'll upgrade it, you'll fill it with prestige and power.

Football is like life—it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.