Quotes about Patience
Nature is always waiting, watching for you to lose faith so she can insert her fatal stitch
- John Updike
It took me a long time to understand that even a stubborn mule responds to gentleness.
- John Wooden
In game play it was always my philosophy that patience would win out. By that, I meant patience to follow our game plan. If we believed in it, we would wear the opposition down and would eventually get to them. If we broke away from our style, however, and played their style, we would be in trouble. And if we let our emotions, rather than our reason, command the game we would not function effectively.
- John Wooden
reminder that gentleness can fix in a moment what an hour of shouting fails to achieve.
- John Wooden
You must believe in what you're doing, that what you're doing is the proper thing, the right thing. And you must have faith that things will end up as they should, which doesn't mean as you want them to, but things will work out as they should.
- John Wooden
Remember That Success Can Take Months—or Years—to Achieve but Can Be Undone in Minutes.
- John Wooden
Sometime you can do everything right and still lose. It's all a journey. You do your best, and then you have to let it go. Lots of people preach that, but come crunch time—oops, not so easy to do.
- John Wooden
Be quick - but don't hurry.
- John Wooden
Each day my mother demonstrated great patience and the ability and eagerness to work very hard without complaint
- John Wooden
If you don't have the time to do it right, how can you have the time to do it over?
- John Wooden
Some of those under your supervision will catch on quickly, others not. Understanding that patience is an integral part of good teaching and effective leadership allowed me to accept the varying speeds at which people learn and to accommodate, within reason, those differences. Patience became an asset for me rather than a liability. I came to understand that good things take time.
- John Wooden
Nothing Is Stronger than Gentleness
- John Wooden