“Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.”
Bk. X, ch. 16
War and Peace (1865–1867; 1869)
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Russian writer 1828–1910Related quotes
“Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.”
Thomas Edison (1847–1931) American inventor and businessman
As quoted in Thomas Alva Edison : Sixty Years of an Inventor's Life (1908) by Francis Arthur Jones, p. 14.
1900s
“All things come round to him who will but wait.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Tales of a Wayside Inn
Pt. I, The Student's Tale.
Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863-1874)
“A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.”
Ezra Pound (1885–1972) American Imagist poet and critic
“Everything comes if a man will only wait.”
Benjamin Disraeli book Tancred
Bk. IV, Ch. 8.
Source: Books, Coningsby (1844), Tancred (1847)
“He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.”
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747) French writer, a moralist
Qui sait tout souffrir peut tout oser.
Variant: He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 176.