Impatience Quotes

212 Impatience quotes by 179 unique authors

I think teenage impatience is just plain human nature! I think every generation has to cope with different circumstances, different problems. But it's the world… — Loretta Young
Hope, O my soul, hope. Watch carefully, for everything passes quickly, even though your impatience turns a very short time into a long one. — Teresa of Avila
One has to wait without impatience for what should come, and yet at the same time do everything within one's power as though one were… — Rodney Collin
Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength. — Charles Caleb Colton
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who… — Henry Van Dyke
The computer, the noise of the computer feels like impatience. It's sort of the sound of impatience to me. — Tony Kushner
I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current love affair with all things Eastern. If I… — Hugh Laurie
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
My worst quality is impatience. — Emma Thompson
Our human tendency is to be impatient with the person who cannot see the truth that is so plain to us. We must be careful… — Henry B. Eyring
If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns. — Madeleine L'Engle
The thought of Christmas overwhelms him. He no longer looks forward to the holiday; he wants only to be on the other side of the… — Jhumpa Lahiri
You have an incredible body." He reaches out to touch my stomach. I feel no pleasure in his compliment or his touch, only impatience. This… — Augusten Burroughs
Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears… — Jane Austen
Patience and boredom are closely related. Boredom, a certain kind of boredom, is really impatience. You don't like the way things are, they aren't interesting… — Bertrand Russell
The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time. — Dante Alighieri
I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the… — Jonathan Safran Foer
What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance.… — Hermann Hesse
Impatience can cause wise people to do foolish things. — Janette Oke
Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily. — Jean Toomer

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