Quotation Saturday

PATIENCE

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.
--Susanna Moodie

Haste trips its own heels, and fetters and stops itself. 
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think. 
--Mortimer Adler

FOLLOW-THROUGH

"Have the dogged determination to follow through to achieve your goal; regardless of circumstances or whatever other people say, think, or do."
-- Paul Meyer

"The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time." -- Joe Girard

"There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks."
-- David Lloyd George

I had rather do and not promise than promise and not do.
-- Arthur Warwick

DESIRE/MOTIVATION

"We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents." 

-- Eric Hoffer

"A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart." 

-- Robertson Davies

"The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind.  Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat." -- --Napoleon Hill

"The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain." -- - --Khalil Gibran