Confucius on achieving long-term goals

Do not wish for quick results, nor look for small advantages.  If you seek quick results, you will not reach the ultimate goal.  If you are led astray by small advantages, you will never accomplish great things.

~ Confucius

Warren Buffett on patience and investing

The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.

~ Warren Buffett

Blaise Pascal on boredom

All men's miseries derive in not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

~ Blaise Pascal