Best 142 quotes in «impatience quotes» category

Anger, jealousy, impatience, and hatred are the real troublemakers, with them problems cannot be solved.

A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.

For no one does life drag more disagreeably than for those who try to speed it up.

At times discreetly, at times disgustingly, I yielded to the most fatal temptation whenever I could no longer bear it: as a result of impatience, Orpheus lost Eurydice; as a result of impatience, I lost myself.

Everybody knows I'm impatient. I don't have to apologize for it. I'm too old for that.

Fear and impatience demagnetize. Poise magnetizes.

I'd say my greatest weakness is impatience. I don't suffer fools well.

Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.

Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.

Impatience dries the blood sooner than age or sorrow.

Impatience for victory guarantees defeat

Impatience is a poor substitute for a well-considered plan.

In the end, an impatience with the Word of God can be explained only by an impatience with God. We all, both individually and congregationally, neglect God's Word to our own ruin.

In any situation you can think of, impatience is a source of weakness and fear, while patience represents substance and strength.

Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.

In the locker room I was getting impatient to get on the court, I had to warm up several times.

Let us endeavor to commence every enterprise with a pure view to the glory of God, continue it without distraction, and finish it without impatience.

It seems to me probably that any one who has a series of intolerable positions to put up with must have been responsible for them to some extent... they have contributed to it by impatience or intolerance, or brusqueness-or some provocation.

I want you to adore the Universe, to be easily delighted, but to be prompt as well with impatience with those artists who offend your own deep notions of what the Universe is or should be. ‘This above all ...’

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 impatient and as though one were solely responsible.

My worst quality is impatience.

No more restless uncertainties, no more anxious desires, no more impatience at the place we are in; for it is God who has placed us there, and who holds us in his arms. Can we be unsafe where he has placed us?

O! I burn with impatience for the moment of the dissolution of intolerance; it has injured me.

One thing I noticed when I was young was I was impatient for success. I think everybody is impatient for success. It will come. But don't - you shouldn't let that impatience drive you crazy.

Patience is a virtue, but impatience gets things done.

Our impatience of miles, when we are in a hurry; but it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred and sixty yards.

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 that our impatience is not interpreted as condemnation or rejection.

Patience is the strength of the weak, impatience is the weakness of the strong.

Procrastination is hardly more evil than grasping impatience.

Procrastination and impatience form a system of checks and balances.

Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.

Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.

the impatience of the old is the worst impatience of all.

The biggest enemy to the partnership of dressage is impatience and the human nature to dominate other creatures.

The computer, the noise of the computer feels like impatience. It's sort of the sound of impatience to me.

The biggest pitfall as you make your way through your life is impatience.

We waste the power in impatience which, if, otherwise employed, might remedy the evil.

The true solitary ... will feel that he is himself only when he is alone; when he is in company he will feel that he perjures himself, prostitutes himself to the exactions of others; he will feel that time spent in company is time lost; he will be conscious only of his impatience to get back to his true life.

The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.

We're often in a hurry to finish. Or in a hurry to close a sale. What happens when we adopt the posture of being in a hurry to be generous? With resources or insight or access or kindness... It's an interesting sort of impatience.

The opposite of patience is not impatience, but unbelief.

Time is a monster that cannot be reasoned with. It responds like a snail to our impatience, then it races like a gazelle when you can't catch a breath.

You know you have a lot of impatience with reality as you see it when you're a young man and full of dynamism and strength and ideals and so on.

Accepting reality requires wisdom, impatience, cowardice, or laziness.

Being in a hurry does not slow down time.

A certain amount of impatience can be good to do the good works excessive patience delays to do, but sometimes, it is good to have a little amount of patience, for a little amount of patience can be a big antidote to a big woe of impatience

And no matter how eager you are for it, you cannot make the moon set nor rise any faster.

A paradox: the same century invented History and PHotography. But History is a memory fabricated according to positive formulas, a pure intellectual discourse which abolishes mythic Time; and the Photograph is a certain but fugitive testimony; so that everything, today, prepares our race for this impotence: to be no longer able to conceive duration, affectively or symbolically: the age of the Photograph is also the age of revolutions, contestations, assassinations, explosions, in short, of impatiences, of everything which denies ripening.

A warrior of the Light is never in a hurry. Time works in his favor; he learns to master his impatience and avoids acting without thinking.

By Allah, how _thankful_ he is (_yes, madam, one moment, madam_), how _gladdened_ by the thought that Magid, Magid at least, will, in a matter of four hours, be flying east from this place and its demands, its constant cravings, this place where there exists neither patience nor pity, where the people want what they want _now_, right now (_We've been waiting twenty minutes for the vegetables_), expecting their lovers, their children, their friends, and even their gods to arrive at little cost and in little time, just as table ten expect their tandoori prawns. . . .