Patience. It was a recurring theme in President Obama's press conference this evening.
Patience. A virtue that is acquired with experience.
Patience.
Patience is the greatest of all virtues. - Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. - Dutch Proverb
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent. - Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
Patience is the companion of wisdom. - Saint Augustine (354 AD - 430 AD)
How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. - Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails. - Richard Rybolt
Patience is the best remedy for every trouble. - Titus Maccius Plautus (254 BC - 184 BC)
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew. - Saint Francis de Sales (1567 - 1622)
Are you up to the task?