patience (pt 1)

"We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world" ~Helen Keller

"Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength." ~Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

"There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience." ~Jean de la Bruyère