Desmond Tutu Quotes

Whenever you've got a choice, do good, kiddo. It isn't always fun or easy, but in the long run it makes your life better.

By definition, saving - for anything - requires us to not get things now so that we can get bigger ones later. That's hard. Our brains are hard wired to prefer the here and now.

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

Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.

Instant gratification takes too long.

I'm not the judge of who that is, but I am a believer that no debt in the universe goes unpaid. If you try to buy early, you'll pay late.

Sometimes if you don't take the easy option, it'll pay dividends in the long run.

A wise man in China asked his gardener to plant a shrub. The gardener objected that it only flowered once in a hundred years. "In that case," said the wise man, "plant it immediately." [On the importance of fundamental research.]

Each decision - to kill, to sign a petition, to write a letter, to make a speech, to attack, to lie, to surrender - was made at some point in somebody's day.

It is difficult to be patient but to waste the rewards of patience is worse.

In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.

There are two paths people can take. They can either play now and pay later, or pay now and play later. Regardless of the choice, one thing is certain. Life will demand a payment.

The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.

The difference between a hero and a villain is that they just make different choices.

Instant gratification is not as good as that gratification which comes dripping slow, over the sere seasons.

Being willing to suffer often brings great rewards.

Keep what you've got till you get what you need, y'all. You gotta give a lot just to get what you need sometimes, y'all.

We can choose the way of compassion, the way of forgiveness, the way of generosity. Or we can choose other paths and those have very real consequences in the world. This is absolutely crucial.

Students of cunning have consumed their hearts and learned only tricks; they've thrown away real riches: patience, self-sacrifice, generosity. Rich thought opens the way.

There's a constant contradiction between what feels good and what feels right. But you live with decisions that you make in your life.

I've found that taking shortcuts will get you to the place you don't want to be much quicker than they get u to the place u want to be.

You can’t reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.

You have a choice in life very often whether you do good or you feel good.

It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.

We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. In an instant age, perhaps we must relearn the ancient truth that patience, too, has its victories.