Jude Deveraux Quotes

Not that I want everything right now; but I do want everything.

That is what all of us must learn to do in the United States; to limit objectives, to get ourselves away from the absolute, to find out what is within our powers.

Patience, grasshopper," I counseled. "You don't want to seem overeager." "Right, that's why I said tomorrow," he said. "I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow.

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

Delayed gratification is a sweet lesson whose teacher knows the best is not right now, it is yet to be.

Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.

I think it's kind of nice, in this day and age of instant gratification, that you have to wait for something.

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!

To be a Conservative is to prefer the tried to the untried, the fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the super-abundant, the convenient to the perfect present, laughter to utopian bliss.

Hide your strength, bide your time.

What I've learned is that life is a balance between idealism and realism.

I never like to get ahead of myself. I'm not one of those people that do that.

It is good to have aspirations, but we have to be real.

Be willing to wait longer for you goals to bear fruit than you had anticipated.

It's hard to remain patient when it seems so debilitating to do so. The balance comes with staying ambitious while being patient.

Waiting is a dry desert between where we are and where we want to be. (Finding My Way Home)

You will be a happier person if you don't do what you want to do, most of the time

I'm always the "less is more" guy when it comes to a scene. So I'ma be the one who will keep it grounded. Even if I let it go off and go crazy, I'm still the voice of keeping things grounded in reality.

Grown-up people can wait.

All want power, but few will wait to gain it for themselves.

Not every one of our desires can be immediately gratified. We’ve got to learn to wait patiently for our dreams to come true, especially on the path we’ve chosen.

It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes.

The main reason for people's lack of success is their willingness to give up what they want most of all, for what they want right now!

The key is to wait. Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to do nothing.

There are some things that have to wait and that can't just happen right now.