If you’re holding out for universal popularity, I’m afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

I didn’t always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.

Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

Some people are making music just for numbers and views.

All great achievements require time.

Great loves too must be endured.

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

As a sportsperson, the best thing is people recognising you and loving you for what you do. For me, glamour is 100 people in the hotel feeling happy to see you.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

No greater thing 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.

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Truly, there is a Christian note which makes the whole World vibrate, like an immense gong, in the divine Christ. This note is unique and universal, and in it alone consists the Gospel.

I don’t want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He’s a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

I tell you the groans of the damned in hell are the deep bass of the universal anthem of praise that shall ascend to the throne of my God for ever and ever.

Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.

There is such a thing as ‚thanks-feeling‘ – feeling thankful. This ought to be the general, universal spirit of the Christian.

We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first, rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.

I did work in a strip club, but I didn’t strip. I danced, and I became very popular.

I love dresses, and I’ve definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.

This is me, a sinner on whom the Lord has turned his gaze. And this is what I said when they asked me if I would accept my election as pontiff. I am a sinner, but I trust in the infinite mercy and patience of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I accept in a spirit of penance.

I know a dramatic role is going to happen, but you just got to be patient, you know? It’s going to happen when it’s supposed to happen. I’m not rushing it. I’m not trying to make it happen tomorrow.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.

I don’t think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It’s lonely out here.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Nothing 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.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

Everything popular is wrong.

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you’re nuts, and you’re not as popular with girls as you should be.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

It’s much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won’t keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don’t know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we’ve got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, ‚Is this it? Are we still relevant?‘

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

We uploaded ‚Ocean Eyes‘ to SoundCloud, and it started getting a lot of plays pretty much immediately.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.