The decision to relax rather than to grip, even in the face of impatience or fear, is a conscious and brave choice. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation. — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
Patience as we wait to take action is a kind of compassionate mind. Impatience on the other hand can be a source… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“The impatience you felt before kissing someone you liked wasn't nearly as bad as the impatience you felt afterward.” — Claudia Gray Copy Share Image
In the locker room I was getting impatient to get on the court, I had to warm up several times. — Roger Federer Copy Share Image
One of my weaknesses is impatience. I just have this aching need to get great things done. Can't stand slow change. — Robin S. Sharma Copy Share Image
“What a tremendous sin impatience is, he thinks. It blinds us to the moment before us, and it is only when that… — Robert Jackson Bennett Copy Share Image
If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually… — Jimmy Breslin Copy Share Image
It seems to me probably that any one who has a series of intolerable positions to put up with must have been… — Robert Hugh Benson Copy Share Image
The patient. The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience: - they give no thought… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The same rebellion, the same impatience, the same anger that exists in the hearts of the dark people in Africa and Asia… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to… — James Keller Copy Share Image
We could not help contrasting the equanimity of Nature with the bustle and impatience of man. His words and actions presume alwaysa… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
we need not avoid our active lives, but simply bring to them a new vision and shift of gravity. for in the… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Sometimes I thought of the Peace Corps as a reverse refugee organization, displacing all of us lost Midwesterners, and it was probably… — Peter Hessler Copy Share Image
I want you to adore the Universe, to be easily delighted, but to be prompt as well with impatience with those artists… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“When our lives are frantic and frenzied, we are more prone to anxiety, resentment, impatience, and irritability.” — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
“The root of impatience in discipline is really the same as that of overindulgence. In both instances, parents want to make up… — Russell D. Moore Copy Share Image
Impatience is a bad habit of mine, although I'm working to improve it with lots of therapy. My head moves faster than… — Andi Oliver Copy Share Image
“When God says hold up, wait, pray, it’s not your time yet, our entire bodies rebel, legs kicking and flailing like some… — Heather Choate Davis Copy Share Image
There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Greed usually comes from deadly sin impatience. Because we hate to wait for anything, we prefer to pursue several goals at the… — Sumesh Nair Copy Share Image
For children mastery entails struggle. This means they must be permitted to struggle. If parents inappropriately step in to "help"-out of impatience… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Such is our impatience, such our hatred of procrastination, to everything but the amendment of our practices and the adornment of our… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Do not be vexed with those who show pride, or malice, effeminacy, and impatience in their intercourse with you, or others, but… — John of Kronstadt 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
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
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
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
“Anakin was sixteen years old. Impatience was wired into his being. Despite Anakin's strong Force connection, it would most likely take years… — Jude Watson Copy Share Image
“I sat taller, to suppress my impatience. It was infuriating, this waiting. I was thirty-seven years old. And like a child, an… — Rosie Sultan Copy Share Image
Part of my writing style can be attributed to my mother's impatience with comedy, because whenever I told her a story she… — Patricia Marx 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
