Best Impatience Lines

212 Impatience quotes by 179 unique authors

What an unbearable creature he must have been in those days--and yet in those days he had been comparatively innocent. That was another mystery: it… — Graham Greene
We are all dying, every moment that passes of every day. That is the inescapable truth of this existence. It is a truth that can… — R A Salvatore
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness. — Franz Kafka
All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue. — Franz Kafka
Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared to wait trustfully… — Elisabeth Elliot
There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care… — Samuel Johnson
The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt;… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make people impatient, but… — Martin Luther
we need not avoid our active lives, but simply bring to them a new vision and shift of gravity. for in the center we are… — Sue Monk Kidd
Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone. — Isobelle Carmody
Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Turn," Liz said, trying not to hide her impatience at being forced to read at non-speed-of-light pace. — Ally Carter
It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the other, and wait… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Impatience is a poor substitute for a well-considered plan. — David Eddings
... I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as "writer's impatience", and… — Alan Garner
It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion and all made of wishes, All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all… — William Shakespeare
It was as if thousands and thousands of little roots and threads of consciousness in him and her had grown together into a tangled mass,… — D. H. Lawrence
Prayers are answered in one of four ways,” she said. “Yes. No. I have something else in mind. And . . .” She paused long… — Megan McCafferty
Listen. The trees in this story are stirring, trembling, readjusting themselves. A breeze is coming in gusts off the sea, and it is almost as… — Maggie O'Farrell
On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure… — Evelyn Underhill
The Sisters vanished entirely then, and Aunt Harriet was standing over Tessa, her face flushed with fever as it had been during the terrible illness… — Cassandra Clare
I want that quiet rapture again. I want to feel the same powerful, nameless urge that I used to feel when I turned to my… — Erich Maria Remarque
Plainly, this unwillingness to give ground even on unimportant disagreements is the symptom of some deepseated insecurity, as was my one-time fondness for making teasing… — Christopher Hitchens
The eye solicited alone makes the ear impatient, the ear solicited alone makes the eye impatient. Use these impatiences. Power of the cinematographer who appeals… — Robert Bresson
When you wear the weed of impatience in your heart instead of the flower Acceptance-with-Joy, you will always find your enemies get an advantage over… — Hannah Hurnard

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