Patience – The Greatest Secret of Ordinary Visionaries3 min read
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What is the great secret of Ordinary Visionaries?
Is it purpose, passion, or persistence?
Is it knowledge, creativity, or genius?
Is it hard work, good luck, or good timing?
Well, all of those certainly won’t hurt, but I believe, nothing is more important to an Ordinary Visionary than…
PATIENCE
And here are 25 quotes that prove my case. Let me know what you think!
1. “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” – Leo Tolstoy
2. “Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.” – Joyce Meyer
3. “Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.” – Saadi
4. “Patience is the key to contentment.” – The Prophet Muhammad
5. “Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
6. “Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.” – John Quincy Adams
7. “One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life.” – Chinese Proverb
8. “It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.” – Julius Caesar
9. “Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.” – Søren Kierkegaard
10. “Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.” – Buddha
11. “Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.” – Barbara Johnson
12. “Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.” – Thomas Edison
13. “A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.” – George Savile
14. “The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.” – Arnold H. Glasow
15. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
16. “Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.” – Saint Francis de Sales
17. “Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.” – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
18. “Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.” – Charles Caleb Colton
19. “Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.” – Thomas Huxley
20. “Patience, persistence, and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.” – Napoleon Hill
21. “A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.” – Molière
22. “How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?” – William Shakespeare
23. “To be patient means to be far-sighted enough to trust the end result of a process. What does patience feel like? It feels like not panicking.” – Lama Surya Das
24. “Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.” – David G. Allen
25. “Genius is eternal patience.” – Michelangelo
The big question, then, is, “How does one develop patience?”
Well, patiently, obviously, with one patient action at a time.
What is one thing you are habitually impatient about? I.e. standing in long lines. Then be determined to conquer that impatience and make patiently standing in lines your goal. This builds your personal power.
Cultivate patience. The rewards are enormous, and it is the simplest and most powerful secret of all Ordinary Visionaries.
Cheers, Robert
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