Quotes about Delayed Gratification
Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.
— Desmond Tutu
Patience is a bitter plant that produces sweet fruit.
— Charles Swindoll
Romance says, ' I want it now!'. Wisdom urges patience
— Joshua Harris
Short cuts make long delays.
— JRR Tolkien
The disadvantage of short term is a wrong perspective based on this generation's need for instant results.
— Jackie Pullinger
never act on the impulse of that feeling. If you do, you will cause difficult situations to arise which will take years to untangle. Wait for God's timing and He will do it without any heartache or disappointment.
— Oswald Chambers
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now.
— Zig Ziglar
By and by never comes.
— St. Augustine
And as novelist Robert Louis Stevenson advised, "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
— John Maxwell
Vision rarely require immediate action. It requires patience.
— Andy Stanley
Good habits are difficult to start because the pain comes now and the payoff is in the future. Bad habits are difficult to stop because the payoff comes now and the pain is in the future.
— Craig Groeschel
Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
— Aesop