It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

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

The universe can take quite a while to deliver.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

That’s one of the biggest things. Never being home, always traveling, having different interests and focusing on different things, just the time aspect of going back home and seeing them, you don’t have that at all. It was a big sacrifice but, at the end of the day, it was worth it.

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

Does anybody really think that they didn’t get what they had because they didn’t have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

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

The longer a man’s fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer’s day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

Being willing to donate the taxpayers‘ money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

It is normal to give away a little of one’s life in order not to lose it all.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

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.

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.

The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It’s the most wonderful thing.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

If something inconveniences my children too much or takes me away from them, I won’t do it.

A jug fills drop by drop.

I hope to play until I’m, like, 38 or something, and that’s a lot of years in the game and a lot of travel and a lot of sacrifice on my family’s part.

A good boxing competition gives one the sight of fine men in their prime, trained to the ounce, showing the highest skill, pluck and endurance in carrying out their attack and defence under strict rules of fair play and good temper.

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

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.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

When I tell a child something the first time, I’m nice. The 15th time, I start to get aggravated.

I like playing. I wouldn’t be a good coach. I don’t have the patience to be a coach.

I used to run a full marathon in three hours and 25 or 26 minutes. Not any more.

Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.

These wretched babies don’t come until they are ready.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‚I love you.‘

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

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place.

It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.

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.

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

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.