Quotes about impatience

Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365

Impatience is not the fastest way of getting to where your treasures are. It is the quickest way of by-passing them without even knowing. Keep calm be patient!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -

There is always something behind patience and impatience! Be careful enough to understand these two things any time you meet anybody the patience and impatience of the person!

Paulo Coelho - Warrior of the Light

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.

Orhan Pamuk -

I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if they did, I wouldn't be able to write my novels or paint.

Marianne Moore -

Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.

Guy Kawasaki -

Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.

Heather Choate Davis - Elijah & the SAT: Reflections on a hairy old desert prophet and the benchmarking of our children's lives

When God says hold up, wait, pray, it’s not your time yet, our entire bodies rebel, legs kicking and flailing like some overturned dung beetle certain that if we try hard enough we might be able to gain a little traction on our own

Gwenda Bond - Double Down

I was not born to wait.

Kaiden Blake - Before Ever After

Instead of waiting for the right moment, BE the right moment. You won't be ready for anything if you aren't ready to be you.

M.T. Bass -

Impatience is the cardinal sin of youth.

Richelle E. Goodrich - Slaying Dragons

Impatience is racing at misery full speed.

Maija Haavisto - The Atlas Moth

I should learn patience, it's a shame there's no time for that.

Richard Adams - Watership Down

You're trying to eat grass that isn't there. Why don't you give it a chance to grow?

Zadie Smith - White Teeth

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 an

Ron Brackin -

Patience is not developed by being forced to wait in long lines or for long periods of time. Patience is a decision: to sit back rather than lean forward, to shift your weight from the balls of your feet to your heels. To settle your thoughts on now, to enjoy the journey, to give something or someone time to grow.

Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

You're enough to try the patience of an oyster!

Jessica Khoury - Origin

We were too greedy, grasping for immortality too soon. Perhaps if we had only been patient, content to wait, we would all have forever in the end.

Haresh Sippy -

Impatience may be a virtue if you have to write for today's generation.

Natasha Tsakos -

Patience and Impatience are having tea discussing Time. The conversation goes on endlessly.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -

Take time to understand uncanny and bitter situations or else, you shall only end up creating yet another similar situation, situation after situation, time and again!

John Day -

Patience is inversely proportional to the distance from the front of the queue.

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

To wait is to wisely resign myself to the fact that my ‘timetable’ is too often a ‘table’ with two legs that won’t stand up no matter how much ‘time’ I give it.

Unarine Ramaru -

Inspiration works on the same sense as humans, quite generous yet impatient. When it calls, better respond there and then or it moves shop.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -

Don’t just think about what you missed! Don’t continue to dwell on your past mistakes. You shall always miss something in life, consciously or unconsciously! You shall never be able to do all things excellently in life though you must try to! The lesson from what you missed and its application for a better tomorrow is what matter! Move your thought! Move your body!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -

Don’t just think about what you missed! Don’t continue to dwell on your past mistakes. You shall also miss something in life, consciously or unconsciously! You shall never be able to do all things excellently in life though you must try to! The lesson from what you missed and its application for a better tomorrow is what matter! Move your thought! Move your body!

W.H. Auden - Volume III: 1949-1955

Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but ignores its relation to the past; neither the lazy nor the impatient man, that is, accepts the present instant in its full reality and so cannot love his neighbour completely.

Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365

Impatience has ruined many crowns; it had lured people to give up when they have just few minute to win, just few millimeters to touch the winning carpet!

Megan Chance - The Spiritualist

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

Daphne du Maurier - Don't Look Now and Other Stories

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.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah - Philosophy and life

Wait and see the steps you should or should not have taken, and you shall understand patience and impatience better!

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

In my impatience I become convinced that this desire of mine should have been fulfilled yesterday, when it belongs to a tomorrow that yesterday would have killed had I had my way.

Auliq Ice -

Wishes can be harmful to us when they overcome patience.

Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Your potentials are called POTENTIALS because they are POTENT. Don't make them IMPOTENT by being IMPATIENT. Make an IMPACT".

Michael Bassey Johnson -

Some patient dogs had waited a long time for the fatest bone to come, but the impatient had gone to scavenge for the little it could see.

Robert Jackson Bennett - City of Miracles

What a tremendous sin impatience is, he thinks. It blinds us to the moment before us, and it is only when that moment has passed that we look back, and see it was full of treasures.

Richard Ford -

Something draws you... An impatience with your own ignorance.

Flora Kidd - Passionate Choice

Is there no easy way to taking this dress off you? Am I going to have to rip it off?

A.B. Shepherd - Lifeboat

I wiggled and squirmed in my seat as if I had ants in my pants, but in reality it was merely impatience.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Never allow impatience to prevent you for reaching your full potential.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -

When expectations delay for too long, doubt draw nearer in haste and patience goes farther

Andre Agassi - Open

I slide to my knees and say, "Please let this be over." Then, I'm not ready for it to be over.

Erik Pevernagie -

When one has come to explore the ' instant moment ' and one has chosen to savor the delights of life, which are hidden behind the curtain of haste and superficiality, then ' mental time ' is replacing ' sequential time '. So ' here ' and ' now ' are keeping hustle and impatience in check. (" Just for a moment ")

Doris Kearns Goodwin - No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II

The habit of mobility had become ingrained.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -

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

Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre

Lingerer, my brain is on fire with impatience; and you tarry so long!

Robert Bresson -

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 to the two senses in a governable way.Against the tactics of speed, of noise, set tactics of slowness, of silence.

Ashay Abbhi - Chronicles of Urban Nomads

The thing about waiting is that the longer you wait, the more impatient you become.

Grace Fiorre - The Nothing Spirit: Nothing is Everything

Um..." I mumbled, "We wait.""What? Wait? Do you expect them to just come up here to the beach to get some moonlight?" He sneered as he took another bite of the eagle.

Dante Alighieri -

The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.

Théophile Gautier - Mademoiselle de Maupin

The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought to have spent in solitude and meditation, in endeavoring to make myself worthy of being loved.

Criss Jami - Killosophy

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.

Richelle E. Goodrich - Slaying Dragons

Alas, impatience is but another form of unhappiness. It is true, it is true. I have never met a happy impatient person.

Richelle E. Goodrich - Slaying Dragons

Happiness is never in a rush. If you move too fast, you leave it behind.

Steve Maraboli -

What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation.

Allen Ginsberg - Howl and Other Poems

who journeyed to Denver, who died in Denver, who came back to Denver & waited in vain, who watched over Denver & brooded and loned in Denver and finally went away to find out the Time, & now Denver is lonesome for her heroes,

Edwidge Danticat - The Farming of Bones

Old age is not meant to be survived alone," Man Rapadou said, her voice trailing with her own hidden thoughts. "Death should come gently, slowly, like a man's hand approaching your body. There can be joy in impatience if there is time to find the joy.

Katerina Stoykova Klemer -

Impatience kills quickly.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -

Don’t be too quick to leave the tree you are highly convinced of its future sweet fruits and comforting shade just because you see its present fruitlessness. Just sit under it and endure the scorching sun, one day, its branches will give you comfort and its fruits will give you smiles and nourish your body!

Laura Teresa Marquez -

When we get impatient because something is taking too long, we should remember that Life waits on us a thousand times more than we wait on Life.

Dean Koontz - Odd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure

Waiting is one of the things that human beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential things we must do successfully if we are to know happiness. We are impatient for the future and try to craft it with our own powers, but the future will come as it comes and will not be hurried.

Dean Koontz - Odd Interlude #1

Waiting is one of the things that human beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential things we must do successfully if we are to know happiness. We are impatient for the future and try to craft it with our own powers, but hte future will come as it ocmes and will not be hurried.

Bryant McGill - Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Impatience, resentment, jealousy and endless "want" are not creative attractors and have no value.

Israelmore Ayivor -

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.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -

Impatience can teach us the lessons of patience better

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -

pause, ponder,consult, think through it well, understand the consequence, know the benefit and take a second look at it again for it takes a little mistake to cause a big had I know with a deep regret

Trevor D. Richardson -

We're a society of brats, fighting over the same toys. That, for me, is the closest we come to be inherently evil as a people. It leads to selfishness, inflexibility, and impatience -- among so many other traits that are ugly and harmful. We're combative, competitive, petty, and suffer from one fatal flaw that I can never get my head around. We recognize behavior in others that makes us insane, while turning right around and doing the exact thing to someone else.

Krishna Udayasankar - Kurukshetra

Peace is one thing, revolution is another. You were either impatient or highly optimistic to think one would lead to the other. – Panchali Draupadi.

Martin Luther -

Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make people impatient, but proves that they are impatient. So everyone may learn from tribulation how his heart is constituted.

Israelmore Ayivor - Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts

It is good to exercise patience. But never let your patience be the type that will keep you refrained from acting.

Boniface Sagini -

We want instant lunch, instant cure, instant miracles, instant salary, instant success— instant everything. This instant civilization, we have obsessed with, has made us grow a tad too impatient in virtually everything about life. And, of course, that doesn’t serve us so well.

Harold Bloom - The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

Shakespeare's exquisite imagining belies our total inability to live in the present moment.

Julien Smith - The Flinch

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

William Shakespeare - Much Ado About Nothing

Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.

Ahmed Mostafa -

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

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