Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds?

The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.

You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.

Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.

Don’t complain. The Israelites wasted forty years murmuring and complaining in the wilderness, when they could have just obeyed God and entered into their Promised Land.

One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

I don’t think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you’re willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn’t work. If you’re going to invent, it means you’re going to experiment, and if you’re going to experiment, you’re going to fail, and if you’re going to fail, you have to think long term.

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

The universe can take quite a while to deliver.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.

The action we take and the decisions we make in this decade will have consequences far into this century. If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That’s not a guess, it’s a guarantee. With pride, it’s not a matter of ‚if‘ we will fall, but ‚when.‘ There are no exceptions.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and they’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

Hell isn’t merely paved with good intentions; it’s walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.

I didn’t mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

Smooth functioning of social life has always depended on the recognition of certain basic limits to behavior. We cannot simply say or do anything we wish, or offend people, without paying consequences – isolation, ostracism, etc.

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

God is patient with us to become the God’s children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.

If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

God always has patience.

These wretched babies don’t come until they are ready.

When I tell a child something the first time, I’m nice. The 15th time, I start to get aggravated.

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

Every action has a consequence. It may be good for strengthening. And I have no doubt that lifting a lot of weights can get you stronger. I just don’t know if lifting stronger weights can keep you healthy, or it can keep you doing your job better, especially for a pro athlete.

Great loves too must be endured.