Impatience Quotes

212 Impatience quotes by 179 unique authors

I am different when my nails are done. I am more dynamic. I gesticulate more, I am better at scaring my staff. I can indicate… — Marian Keyes
A writer with her work needs to be like a dog with a bone all the time. She needs to know where she's hidden it.… — Dani Shapiro
She had an air of seeming to wait, as if for a man to get through with something more important than herself, a battle or… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin. — Ian Mcewan
It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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

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