Better - Inasmuch as something certain is attained, man contemplates the end throughout an entire course of action, and does not rest upon the beginning.
Patient ... proud - literally, “Long,” long-suffering ...“high,” in the sense of impatient.
Related Commentaries of Ecclesiastes 7:8
Ecclesiastes 7:8
8 Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.