Impatience Quotes

212 Impatience quotes by 179 unique authors

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,â€ she said. â€œYes. No. I have something else in mind. And . . .â€ 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
Experience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impatience. — Michel de Montaigne
But all I feel is impatience, fury for the opposition I anticipate and the lies I'm going to have to tell to make it happen,… — Kristin Cashore
Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process. What does patience mean?… — Elif Safak
There are two kinds of pity. One, the weak and sentimental kind, which is really no more than the heart's impatience to be rid as… — Stefan Zweig
When we define our happiness by some point in the future, it will never arrive. We'll keep waiting until tomorrow. If we allow impatience to… — Joshua Harris
That is why faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest but unrest, not patience but impatience. It does not calm the unquiet heart,… — JÃ¼rgen Moltmann
The twin killers of success are impatience and greed. — Jim Rohn
I know all about the despair of overcoming chronic temptation. It is not serious, provided self-offended petulance, annoyance at breaking records, impatience, etc., don't get… — C.S. Lewis
Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health. — Michel de Montaigne
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement… — Bryan Adams

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