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

Time itself comes in drops.

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne’er was, nor is, nor e’er shall be.

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

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.

The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.

The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

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

Generally, a writer of force is anywhere from 20 years to 200 years ahead of his generation.

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.

It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

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.

For me, time is the greatest mystery of all. The fact is that we’re dreaming all the time. That’s what really gets me. We have a fathomless lake of unconsciousness just beneath our skulls.

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.

In Hollywood, a lot of times when something is in development, it just takes a lot of time.

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

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

The faster you go, the shorter you are.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

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

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.

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there’s time, the Bastard Time.

Nothing cannot exist forever.

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

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

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

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.

Forever is composed of nows.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

People of Berlin – people of the world – this is our moment. This is our time.

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

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?

The human body is strange and flawed and unpredictable. The human body has many secrets, and it does not divulge them to anyone, except those who have learned to wait.

A jug fills drop by drop.

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

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

‚I wish life was not so short,‘ he thought. ‚Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.‘

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

Endurance is patience concentrated.

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.

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

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

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

We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

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

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.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

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

Time discovers truth.

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee… I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Because in a split second, it’s gone.

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.