Impatience Quotes
212 quotes by 185 authors
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Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news…
— Jimmy Breslin
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Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his…
— James Keller
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When on life's journey it becomes our lot to travel with criticism of skeptics, the hate of some, the rejection of others, the impatience of…
— Angel Abrea
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The sharpest sting of adversity it borrows from our own impatience.
— George Horne
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Never speak out of anger, Never act out of fear, Never choose from impatience, But wait... and peace will appear.
— Guy Finley
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Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.
— Rita Mae Brown
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What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.
— May Sarton
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Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
— Larry Wall
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Force I will meet with gentleness; impatience with patience.
— Walter Russell
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A criminal trial is like a cultural in-flight test in which society projects its own history, fears, impatience, insolence, clemency, insecurities, dreams and nightmares upon…
— Ron Franscell
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Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience. Once implemented they can be easily overturned or subverted through…
— Hyman Rickover
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By our pontifical assertions, our superior impatience, and our casual brushing aside of their curiosity, we do not encourage their inquiry, for we are rather…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Never permit me to disgrace my high vocation by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.
— Mother Teresa
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Impatience never commanded success.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have great impatience of…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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One step at a time is enough for me. Impatience is simply a way of beating yourself up.
— Susan Jeffers
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
— Edmund Burke
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The representatives of the people, in a popular assembly, seem sometimes to fancy that they are the people themselves, and betray strong symptoms of impatience…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The top two ways to destroy success are greed and impatience
— Phil Harding
Who Wrote These Impatience Quotes
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