Impatience Quote by Michel de Montaigne Download Open image “Experience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impatience.” — Michel de Montaigne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Impatience Ruins Taught
Impatience makes us get ahead of ourselves, reaching out for something in the future and not really being content with where we are, here… — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
It's not always impatience. Sometimes, it's the fear of losing that one special thing to a careless hand. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
One step at a time is enough for me. Impatience is simply a way of beating yourself up. — Susan Jeffers Copy Share Image
One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One moment of patience may change a life. One moment of impatience may destroy a life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Impatience is something not to be proud of as a major step for you in life. Cherish patience. — Kishore Bansal Copy Share Image
In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience is to be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints, that, if properly… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Impatience is a bad habit of mine, although I'm working to improve it with lots of therapy. My head moves faster than my body… — Andi Oliver Copy Share Image
To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear… — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“The drivers here are horrible. And by horrible, I mean they don't realize I have someplace to be.” — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
we need not avoid our active lives, but simply bring to them a new vision and shift of gravity. for in the center we… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their natural sloth tempting them on the other. They are terrified at the prospect before them, of the toil required to attain exactness. The impetuosity of youth is disgusted at the slow approaches of a regular siege,… — Anonymous Copy Share
That is why faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest but unrest, not patience but impatience… Those who hope in Christ can… — Jürgen Moltmann Copy Share Image
Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
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… — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve. Any time you tolerate mediocrity in others, it increases your mediocrity.… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
The cure for impatience with the fulfillment of God's timetable is to believe His promises, obey His will, and leave the results to Him.… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
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? It means to look at the thorn and see the rose, to look at the night and see the dawn. Impatience means to be so shortsighted as to not be able to see the outcome.… — Anonymous Copy Share