Haste Quotes

The more haste, the less speed.

— John Heywood

Make haste cautiously.

— Augustus

Haste is always ungraceful.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Haste is of the Devil.

— St. Jerome

Hurry up and learn patience.

— Wes Smith

Haste, the great enemy.

— Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

Haste is a poor counselor

— Alexandre Dumas

Quick enough, if good enough.

— St. Jerome

“A work done in haste is waste.”

— Bismillah Achakzai

Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Too great haste leads us to error.

— Moliere

Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.

— John Wesley

Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Stumbling is the fruit of haste.

— Muhammad Ali

Practice the art of patience for nature never acts in haste.

— Og Mandino

Do not make too much haste on one's road.

— Chilon of Sparta

The greatest assassin of dreams is haste, the desire to reach things before the right time

— Babloo

Not that which men do worthily, but that which they do successfully, is what history makes haste to record.

— Henry Ward Beecher

When Congress legislates in haste, it often causes more problems than it solves. But Congress rarely reconsiders its mistakes.

— David Malpass

All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.

— Livy

“In your haste you walk far too fast. And in doing so you often leave your soul behind.”

— Anonymous

He is invariably in a hurry being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life.

— Elizabeth Bibesco

“Too much hurry will bury your goals. Too much haste will make you waste. Too quick race will cripple your pace. Be…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.

— Abraham Cowley

Fish slowly and thoroughly. Haste never pays dividends. Don't whip the stream to a froth. Make fewer cast, make them to places…

— Ray Bergman

So surely as you find yourself in the mental attitude of haste, just so surely may you know that you are out…

— Wallace D. Wattles

Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know…

— Horatio Nelson

A Moment's Halt-a momentary taste Of BEING from the Well amid the Waste- And, Lo! the phantom Caravan has reach'd The NOTHING…

— Omar Khayyam

Never betray His principles for any reason whatsoever, and take great care not to spoil God's affairs by too much haste in…

— Vincent de Paul

Why did you destroy Manny's office, then?" "I--can't breathe--" "That is the point of choking you," I pointed out. "Haste, please, if…

— Rachel Caine

We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Don't rush in order to have things done early. Be prepared before you set off. That's the rule. However, this does not…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Once learnt, this business of cooking was to prove an ever growing burden. It scarcely bears thinking about, the time and labour…

— Rose Macaulay

Soft you day, be velvet soft, My true love approaches, Look you bright, you dusty sun, Array your golden coaches. Soft you…

— Maya Angelou

Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed The dear repose for limbs with travel tired; But then begins a journey…

— William Shakespeare

We are independent of the change we detect. The longer the lever, the less perceptible its motion. It is the slowest pulsation…

— Henry David Thoreau

Fare well we call to hearth and hall Though wind may blow and rain may fall We must away ere break of…

— Anonymous

She thought in would be awkward for both to be brought into conscious collision; and fancied that, from her being on a…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

When we walk slowly, the world can fully appear. Not only are the creatures not frightened away by our haste or aggression,…

— Joan Halifax

...as the slow sea sucked at the shore and then withdrew, leaving the strip of seaweed bare and the shingle churned, the…

— Daphne du Maurier