Haste Quotes

225 Haste quotes by 171 unique authors

God cannot endure that unfestive, mirthless attitude of ours in which we eat our bread in sorrow, with pretentious, busy haste, or even with shame.… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The talk of lovers who have just declared their love is one of life's most sweet delights. Each vies with the other in humility, in… — Iris Murdoch
There has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to suceed and be great. Our thought has been 'Let every man look… — Woodrow Wilson
I am not strictly speaking mad, for my mind is absolutely normal in the intervals, and even more so than before. But during the attacks… — Vincent Van Gogh
Hurry? I have no time to hurry. — Igor Stravinsky
Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one. — Charles Caleb Colton
Hurry n: The dispatch of bunglers. — Ambrose Bierce
He is invariably in a hurry being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life. — Elizabeth Bibesco
Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education. — William Godwin
Who are we, as we stand before the child Jesus? Who are we, standing as we stand before today's children? Are we like Mary and… — Pope Francis
Never make a promise in haste. — Mahatma Gandhi
As we go forth into the coming year, let it not be in the haste of impetuous, forgetful delight, nor with the quickness of impulsive… — Oswald Chambers
Hurry ruins saints as well as artists. They want quick success, and they are in such a hurry to get it that they cannot take… — Thomas Merton
Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness. — Dallas Willard
How like fish we are: ready, nay eager, to seize upon whatever new thing some wind of circumstance shakes down upon the river of time!… — Aldo Leopold
Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
But just as haste and restlessness are typical of our present-day life, so change also takes place more rapidly than before. This applies to change… — Gustav Stresemann
It is commonly observed, that when two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather; they are in haste to tell each other, what… — Samuel Johnson
Never betray His principles for any reason whatsoever, and take great care not to spoil God's affairs by too much haste in them. — Vincent de Paul
But as there is a keeping back, and quietly waiting, and a keeping out of willing or running, and haste, the spirit arises purely and… — Francis Howgill
Wherefore, brethren, let us be careful neither to out-go our guide, nor yet loiter behind him; since he that makes haste, may miss his way,… — William Penn
And so we polish our own lives, creating landscapes and canyons and peaks with the very silt we try to avoid, the dirt we disavow… — Terry Tempest Williams
Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action. — Will Durant
The greatest assassin of life is haste, the desire to reach things before the right time which means overreaching them. — Juan Ramon Jimenez
If you must be in a hurry, then let it be according to the old adage, and hasten slowly. — Vincent de Paul

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