Jeremy Grantham Quotes

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.

Idling is not my strong suit.

I will count to 10 before tweeting.

Part of Obama's persona is self-reliance. He's calm; he's cool; he's self-possessed. In many ways, he has tried to define himself in opposition to Clinton's sometimes needy, often undisciplined, emotionalism.

I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

Instant gratification takes too long.

Now, I'm the most impatient person that ever walked the planet. However: for the best, you always wait.

No one can be patient who is not independent.

In today’s day, patience is a new form of patriotism.

Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy.

I always deeply admire people who can stay still in a room and wait for people to come to them.

Ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.

My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he had to be in charge of his problems.

Once you have really done all you can, then you can show it to people. But I find this is increasingly not the case with the younger people. They do a first draft and want somebody to finish it off for them with good advice.

Here they learned to Wait. To Watch. To think thoughts and not voice them.

I can think. I can wait. I can fast.

Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?

Now I must wait and be still and say nothing I don't know, nothing I haven't lived over and over, and that's everything.

Swaraj is not a product of excitement or intoxication. Swaraj will be the natural and inevitable result of business like habits.

As a player all you can do is play within yourself, even in the context of a team sport.