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"Church leaders may get disappointed in ministry if they do not know God's time."

"Don't be in a hurry in life. The sacred-time determines the due events."

"Nurture a tree today, and it will provide you fruit tomorrow."

"Sometimes it is best to stand back from conflict and allow other elements in someone's life to do the hard work for you."

"It is not a vice or a show of weakness when you live by the principle of delay gratification."

"Walking to success is better than sprinting to failure."

"If a train is two minutes late in leaving, one will become impatient, 'when will the train leave, when will it leave?' This world is not worth getting impatient restless about."
Explore more quotes by Robert Falcon Scott


"Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale."


"The events of the day's march are now becoming so dreary and dispiriting that one longs to forget them when we camp; it is an effort even to record them in a diary."


"We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker of course and the end cannot be far. It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more. For God's sake, look after our people."


"As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface."


"The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee."


"We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past."
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