Impatience Quotes

My worst quality is impatience.

Impatience is a sign of hurrying; hurrying is a sign of worrying; worrying is a sign someone forgot time is on their side.

Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.

The world is cluttered up with unfinished business in the form of projects that might have been successful, if only at the tide point someone's patience had turned to active impatience.

Stress says that the things we are involved in are important enough to merit our impatience, our lack of grace toward others, or our tight grip of control.

Because of impatience we were driven out [of Paradise]; because of impatience we cannot return.

What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.

Great men wait for the right moment to abandon caution. The rest of us abandon it when impatience becomes too much for us.

A hitter's impatience is the pitcher's biggest advantage.

In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience is to be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints, that, if properly applied might remove the cause.

To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well.

No good writer was ever long neglected; no great man overlooked by men equally great. Impatience is a proof of inferior strength, and a destroyer of what little there may be.

Do not be impatient for impatience is of the flesh. Do not try different methods because they are useful solely in helping the flesh. We must distrust the flesh entirely.

I am inclined to think -' said I. 'I should do so,' Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently.

Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.

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.

Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand.

Impatience dries the blood sooner than age or sorrow.

Suddenly I become filled with a consuming impatience to be gone.

Talent is nothing but long impatience.

Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a fever to the plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, and sorrow to amazement.

We weren't impatient. We just weren't moving.

Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation.

I know the usual answer of Christ using violence to get the sellers out of the temple, but to me this was impatience rather than violence.

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.

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

The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity.

A human being is all hope and impatience.

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

Procrastination and impatience form a system of checks and balances.

Experience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impatience.

There's a generation of children who don't like black and white movies. There's a level of impatience or intolerance.

Be patient with your impatience.

The Gnostic needs a lot of patience because any act of impatience leads him to failure.

Successful salesmen, authors, executives and workmen of every sort need patience. The great liability of youth is not inexperience but impatience.

Patience as we wait to take action is a kind of compassionate mind. Impatience on the other hand can be a source of failure.

The sharpest sting of adversity it borrows from our own impatience.

If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns.

Force I will meet with gentleness; impatience with patience.

The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies.

What you're missing is that the path itself changes you.

Impatient men are generous ones. Or haven't you learned that by now?

... 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 to follow Arthur Koestler's dictum: "Soak; and wait.

Turn," Liz said, trying not to hide her impatience at being forced to read at non-speed-of-light pace.

Worry is half impatience and half ignorance.

Impatience is a hindrance. As with all things if you attempt to take shortcuts, the final destination will rarely be as good and may even be attainable.

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

If you're not comfortable with delay, frustration and impatience, get out of the Senate. It's the nature of the institution, but I think we've taken it to an art form.

Enlightenment is probably antithetical to impatience.