“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time

“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” - Leo Tolstoy

— from Time

In the book

It only asks what you did with the hours. And it rewards a pairing the impatient never discover: the two most powerful warriors, Tolstoy wrote, are patience and time, for nothing worthwhile is built instantly — real success is assembled slowly, layer on layer, by people willing to wait. Which is why we so reliably miscalculate, overestimating wildly what we can do in two years and badly underestimating what we can do in ten. — Time

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