There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

About Franz Kafka

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Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-language Jewish writer from Prague. Widely regarded as a major figure of 20th-century literature, his works fuse elements of realism and the fantastique, and typically feature isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surreal predicaments and incomprehensible bureaucratic powers. The term...

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Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.

To feel life is meaningless unless "I" can be permanent, is like having desperately having fallen in love with an inch.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

A cage went in search of a bird.

Every one of us has a bad conscience, which he tries to escape by going to sleep as quickly as possible.

More quotations tagged with “patience”

It is very strange that the years teach us patience—that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

—Elizabeth Taylor

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

—Edmund Burke

A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.

—Dutch Proverb

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

—Cato the Elder

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.

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