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- They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
- An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains.
- Dutch
- The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forebearing.
- Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
- Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is simple patience.
- Horace Bushnell
- If your children look up to you, you've made a success of life's biggest job.
- Author Unknown
- Children begin by loving their parents. As they grow older, they judge them. Sometimes they forgive them.
- Author Unknown
- A mother is not a person to lean on but person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy Fisher
- Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.
- Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves. They will rather go on discovering things before discovered, until they are rewarded with a land hitherto unknown, an empire indisputably their own, both right of conquest and of discovery.
- C. C. Colton
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