Success requires not only hard work and persistence, but also patience. Success usually takes more time than you thought.
Tag: delayed gratification
Delayed gratification is the ability to postpone an immediate gain in favor of greater and later gain. Resistance to the temptation of an immediate pleasure in the hope of a future reward.
Patience and Virtue
Patience is well-known by the popular saying, “Patience is a virtue.” It involves tolerating delay by exercising self-control over the desire, and sometimes the impulse, of wanting what you want almost immediately.