Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Turn," Liz said, trying not to hide her impatience at being forced to read at non-speed-of-light pace. — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Successful salesmen, authors, executives and workmen of every sort need patience. The great liability of youth is not inexperience but impatience. — William Feather Copy Share Image
Thought I'd give impatience a try. Got a little enveloped in time. Cuz I watch you come and watch you go and… — The Ready Set Copy Share Image
Hollywood's always saying, "Yesterday!" and scares you to death with all that deadline and yelling and impatience stuff. — Hampton Fancher Copy Share Image
One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Hope, O my soul, hope. You know neither the day nor the hour. Watch carefully, for everything passes quickly, even though your… — St. Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There was a feeling during the years of George W. Bush's presidency that his gracelessness as well as his appetite for war… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The morbid states of health, the irritableness of disposition arising from unstrung nerves, the impatience, the crossness, the fault-finding of men, who,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“Impatience makes you just like the rest of humanity, a gas molecule feverishly rebounding against other gas molecules. But if your gaze… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Patience is an ever present alternative to the mind’s endemic restlessness and impatience. Scratch the surface of impatience and what you will… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
You have an incredible body." He reaches out to touch my stomach. I feel no pleasure in his compliment or his touch,… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Calmly take what ill betideth; Patience wins the crown at length: Rich repayment him abideth Who endures in quiet strength. Brave the… — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone. — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
“One step at a time is enough for me. Impatience is simply a way of beating yourself up. (from Kammy haynes)” — Susan Jeffers Copy Share Image
Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily. — Jean Toomer Copy Share Image
Seeing the world around you clearly is a critical step in developing an idea for a business, carrying out that idea, and… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Do not let the loud utterances of your own wills anticipate, nor drown, the still, small voice in which God speaks. Bridle… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
All the troubles of the world, especially the spiritual, such as grief, impatience, disillusionment, despair, the truly basic troubles of man-they came… — Abraham Isaac Kook Copy Share Image
“Rather than thinking, “I’m feeling bored and impatient,” realize “Here’s boredom and impatience,” and explore your experience. Or say to yourself, “Isn’t… — Julie T. Lusk Copy Share Image
Prayers are answered in one of four ways,” she said. “Yes. No. I have something else in mind. And . . .”… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
PATIENCE allows things to happen at the given time. PROCRASTINATION allows things to happen at the wrong time behind the given time.… — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“One common cause of this mistake of preferring to imagine and admire a great ideal instead of beginning to do little deeds… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
It would not be more unreasonable to transplant a favorite flower out of black earth into gold dust than it is for… — William Mountford Copy Share Image
“Impatience blossoms when something becomes more important than someone. In those moments, you need to offer to take the focus off the… — William P. Smith Copy Share Image
The thought of Christmas overwhelms him. He no longer looks forward to the holiday; he wants only to be on the other… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
It is both dangerous and easy to hate man as he is because he is not what he ought to be. If… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Impatience and frustration are self destructive emotions. It may make one a victim of stress and disappointment. We must learn to accept… — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
There is no enemy can hurt us but by our own hands. Satan could not hurt us, if our own corruption betrayed… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
Patience and boredom are closely related. Boredom, a certain kind of boredom, is really impatience. You don't like the way things are,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
No more restless uncertainties, no more anxious desires, no more impatience at the place we are in; for it is God who… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
“...there was an impatience in her tone, almost an accusation, as she added that academics were not intellectuals; they were not curious,… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A certain amount of impatience may be useful to stimulate and motivate us to action. However, I believe that a lack of… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
“...Reminiscence is less an endowment than a disease, and expectation in its only comfortable form--that of absolute faith--is practically an impossibility; whilst… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
