Best 73 quotes in «impatient quotes» category

All this waiting. Waiting for the rain to stop. Waiting in traffic. Waiting for the bill. Waiting at the airport for an old friend. Waiting to depart. Then, there’s the big waiting: waiting to grow up. Waiting for love. Waiting to show your your parents that when you have kids you’ll be different. Waiting to retire. Waiting for death. Why do we think waiting is the antithesis of life when it is almost all of it?

Being in a hurry does not slow down time.

But as in the degrees of sickness thou art to submit to God, so in the kind of it (supposing equal degrees) thou art to be altogether indifferent whether God call thee by a consumption or an asthma, by a dropsy or palsy, by a fever in thy humours, or a fever in your spirits; because all such nicety of choice is nothing but a colour to a legitimate impatience, and to make an excuse to murmur privately, and for circumstances, when in the sum of affairs we durst not own impatience.” Jeremy Taylor’s “Holy Dying”, extract from chapter IV.I (The Practice of Patience) para 5.

Eating seeds is at times a sign of shortsightedness or impatience.

Create hell and people will be impatient to get there, just out of curiosity

Don’t be impatient with yourself. Just be in awe.

Even a trillion dollars is made up of cents.

Even the longest book is read and was written one word at a time.

Instant gratification is overrated. While it might seem exciting to be able to snap your fingers and have something you want materialize before your eyes, that won't give you the full appreciation or enjoyment that comes from envisioning your dream and making it happen with everything you've got. If there is something you want very much, and you are feeling pretty impatient about getting it, you should resolve to enjoy the process and not look forward only to the goal; you'll get much more out of it this way.

I could've loved you but the line is too long and your passiveness is endless.

Impatience is even more unfortunate in the talented.

Impatience makes even the strong weak.

I am who I am! Weird , impatient, imperfect! I think it's good !

Impatience destroys at least 98% of hard work’s potential.

Impatience often makes us patients.

It embarrassed her, as a child, to think that her father had fallen in love, or, if men must love, then it should have been someone else, someone dark, mysterious and profoundly clever, not an ordinary person who was impatient for no reason and cross when one was late for lunch.

It takes patience to nurture patience.

It is impossible to trip and fall while walking slowly.

Never allow impatience to rob you of what you truly deserved.

LOVE is made up of a strong affection and patience whiles LUST is made up of a strong affection and impatience. Affection is common to them, but patience is not common.

No one has ever envied someone for their impatience or the intensity of their anger.

No hasty man attains excellence, No impatient man is leaned upon.

Some people are a degree of impatience away from expecting shade from a seed.

Only a fool would speak of their impatience or intolerance with pride.

One of the best ways to start being impatient is to stop meditating.

...She had little patience with people who got intellectually lazy when faced with a difficult concept.

We sometimes hide our inability, impatience, or laziness behind the pretext of being realistic.

Sometimes it's hard to look at a flower, when your dying inside.

There are so many impatient people in the world. It seems everyone wants something right this second. We don't want to wait in lines, we get fidgety when our food takes too long to cook, and we have no tolerance whatsoever for anyone who holds us up from doing anything we want to do the moment we want to do it. I'm bothered right now that I'm having to wait till the end of this sentence to see what word I end up on. On, who knew? It's particularly hard to wait for things that are days or weeks or even months away. Calendars mock you, clocks pester you, and the rotation of the earth seems to slow by at least forty percent. I suppose, however, that if you were preparing to take over the world and you needed one final piece to fall into place, but that piece had to be slowly dragged over the dirt so it didn't die, that would be really hard to wait for. I'd feel sorry for whoever that happened to, but then again they were trying to take over the world and all. So please, no sympathy for Azure.

The guilt you felt when you were smiling and others were suffering, the guilt you felt when you were petty with friends and impatient with your parents, when you were rude to your teachers and didn’t stand up for strangers, that guilt is marvellous. It proves that you are human, that you want to be better. Thank this guilt for teaching you, for making you aware. And now endeavour to better yourself. It is a lifelong work to become the person we want to be.

We’re becoming impatient and lazy and we’re allowing this to shape our approach to our relationships. But successful relationships aren’t handed over on a plate, or downloaded at the click of a button, or ours in twenty-four hours for just £9.99 extra. Relationships are up there with food, water, clothing and shelter and you can’t just buy them or trade them in for an upgrade.

Whatever comes to you in a cheap way will vanish in a cheap way. Be patient and earn it the hard way.

A lot of people get impatient with the pace of change.

Advise for anybody - enjoy what you are doing, enjoy the process of learning and don't be impatient.

You can be impatient and get fewer results or you can be patient and enjoy more than you desired. The choice is totally yours.

If you think customers are impatient in New York, wait to you see how impatient they are here in L.A.

Among those who share a throne there can be no loyalty; Dominion's ever impatient consort.

An impatient person plays differently than a more patient person.

He laughed, and it raised goose-bumps on my arms. "Oh,ma petite ,ma petite , you are precious." Just what I wanted to hear. "So how are you getting here?" "My private jet." Of course, he had a private jet. "When can you be here?" "I will be there as soon as I can, my impatient flower." "I prefer ma petite to flower.

I couldn't direct because I'm too impatient and I couldn't put together a package because I don't understand money. I'd rather just do what I'm doing.

Americans have grown impatient with the relentless politicizing of every area of life.

Having written pilots, in recent years, for networks that are dusty on a shelf somewhere, I was growing more and more impatient and eager to create something and just get it seen. Ultimately, that's what you're in the business to do.

I am too impatient to wait for temptation to come to me.

I could almost hear the characters inside, murmuring and jostling, impatient for me to open the cover and let them out.

I get pretty impatient with people who are able-bodied but are somehow paralyzed for other reasons.

I just know that there are plenty of people who are in terrible trouble and can't get out. And so I'm impatient with those who think that it's easy for people to get out of trouble.

I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.

I love shopping! I'm impatient though. I'll go to the mall and in 30 minutes be ready to go.

It's why muse is so impatient with me. I don't ever go to her until after the teaching or whatever is over.

I'm not as impatient as I used to be. I used to hit people if I didn't like what they were saying. Just lash out. 'Bam - shut up! Hahahah!' I was terrible.