Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

Quote by Jean De La Fontaine

Topics: Passion Quotes

There is no road of flowers leading to glory

There is no road of flowers leading to glory

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something....

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something....

Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.

Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.

There is nothing useless to men of sense.

There is nothing useless to men of sense.

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

We believe no evil till the evil's done

We believe no evil till the evil's done

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

But the shortest works are always the best.

But the shortest works are always the best.

Beware so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance

Beware so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.

Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that...

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that...

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.

Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

Rather suffer than die is man's motto.

Rather suffer than die is man's motto.