Impatience Quotes

212 quotes by 185 authors

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
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
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
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
The sharpest sting of adversity it borrows from our own impatience. — George Horne
Never speak out of anger, Never act out of fear, Never choose from impatience, But wait... and peace will appear. — Guy Finley
Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience. — Rita Mae Brown
What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast. — May Sarton
Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris. — Larry Wall
Force I will meet with gentleness; impatience with patience. — Walter Russell
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
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
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
Never permit me to disgrace my high vocation by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience. — Mother Teresa
Impatience never commanded success. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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
One step at a time is enough for me. Impatience is simply a way of beating yourself up. — Susan Jeffers
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering. — Edmund Burke
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
The top two ways to destroy success are greed and impatience — Phil Harding

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