“Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.”– Hyman Rickover Related Quotes “Patience has its limits, take it too far and it’s cowardice.”– Holbrook Jackson “For anything worth having one must pay the price and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.”– John Burroughs “Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.”– Thomas Perry