Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

In the ideal world, if I was perfect, I’d be able to beat every teammate that I have, in every race.

Because in a split second, it’s gone.

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.

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

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

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

We are time’s subjects, and time bids be gone.

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

Our minds work in real time, which begins at the Big Bang and will end, if there is a Big Crunch – which seems unlikely, now, from the latest data showing accelerating expansion. Consciousness would come to an end at a singularity.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

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

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

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

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

But time has set its maggot on their track.

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 Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn’t think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.

Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form.

‚Perfection‘ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‚I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.‘ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.

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

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

We welcome the scrutiny of the world – because what you see in America is a country that has steadily worked to address our problems and make our union more perfect.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

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.

All great achievements require time.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

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.

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

I’m fascinated by the fact that we can’t grasp anything about time.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

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.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

Time stays, we go.

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

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

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.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

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

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.