** Know that the more enduring thy patience, the more certain thy reward. There is no great accomplishment that is not the result of patient working and waiting. ** Life is not a race. No road will be too long for you if you advance deliberately and without haste. Avoid, like the plague, every carriage that halts to offer you a swift journey to wealth, fame, and power. Life has such hard conditions, even at its best, that the temptations when they appear, can destroy you. Walk. You are able. ** Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. With patience you can bear up under any adversity and survive any defeat. With patience you can control your destiny and have what you will. ** Patience is the key to contentment, for you and for those who must live with you. ** Realize that you cannot hurry success any more than the lilies of the field can bloom before their season. What pyramid was ever built but by a stone at a time? How poor are they who have not patience. What wound did ever heal but by degrees? ** Every priceless attribute which wise men trumpet as necessary for the achievement of success is useless without patience. To be brave without patience can kill you. To be ambitious without patience can destroy the most promising careers. To strive for wealth without patience will only separate you from your thin purse. And to persevere without patience is always impossible. Who can hold on, who can persevere, without the waiting that attends it? ** Patience is power. Employ it to stiffen your spirit, sweeten your temper, stifle your anger, bury your envy, subdue your pride, bridle your tongue, restrain your hand, and deliver you whole, in due time, to the life you deserve. *-* Og, Mandino *-*