Top 44 Make Haste Quotes

#1. Life itself is vanishing fast. Make haste for eternity.

Robert E. Murray

#2. Must you be in such haste to don your clothes, ser? I prefer you as you are. Abed, unclad, we are our truest selves, a man and a woman, lovers, one flesh, as close as two can be. Our clothes make us different people. - Arianne

George R R Martin

#3. If "Been there, done that" isn't your mantra,then make haste down your "bucket list.

Gina Greenlee

#4. Oh be swift to live, make haste to be kind.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#5. Festina lente. Make haste slowly.

James Rollins

#6. When you are ill make haste to forgive your enemies, for you may recover.

Ambrose Bierce

#7. People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end and that behind all the joyous 'onward and upward' slogans lurks the lascivious voice of death urging us to make haste.

Milan Kundera

#8. A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Samuel Johnson

#9. Do not make too much haste on one's road.

Chilon Of Sparta

#10. Life is short and we never have enough time for the hearts of those who travel the way with us. O, be swift to love! Make haste to be kind.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#11. Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.

Horatio Nelson

#12. No, and [the sun] will not rise today, Master Holbytla. Nor ever again, one would think under this cloud. But time does not stand still, though the Sun be lost. Make haste!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#13. My desire is to make what haste I can to be gone.

Oliver Cromwell

#14. Sir 11:23 For it is easy in the eyes of God on a sudden to make the poor man rich. Sir 11:24 The blessing of God maketh haste to reward the just, and in a swift hour his blessing beareth fruit.

Various

#15. The Stars are setting and the Caravan Starts for the Dawn of Nothing-Oh, make haste!

Omar Khayyam

#16. You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My godmother used to say, I don't want to rust out, I just want to work out. If you stand still long enough, people will throw dirt on you.

Ben Vereen

#17. Too much hurry will bury your goals. Too much haste will make you waste. Too quick race will cripple your pace. Be patient.

Israelmore Ayivor

#18. We must make haste then, not only because we are daily nearer to death, but also because the conception of things and the understanding of them cease first.

Marcus Aurelius

#19. Fish slowly and thoroughly. Haste never pays dividends. Don't whip the stream to a froth. Make fewer cast, make them to places which count an fish each cast out instead of lifting it prematurely

Ray Bergman

#20. Make haste! The tide of Fortune soon ebbs.

Silius Italicus

#21. Make haste cautiously.

Augustus

#22. Never make a promise in haste.

Mahatma Gandhi

#23. A Moment's Halt-a momentary taste
Of BEING from the Well amid the Waste-
And, Lo! the phantom Caravan has reach'd
The NOTHING it set out from. Oh, make haste!

Omar Khayyam

#24. Make haste in giving voluntary charity, for calamities cannot pass by it.

Al-Tabarani

#25. In vain a zealous evangelist with a fely hat and flowing tie threads his way through the crowd, crying without cease: 'God is great and good. Come unto Him.' On the contrary, they all make haste toward some trivial objective that seems of more immediate interest than God.

Albert Camus

#26. I am able more and more to make use of that long patience you have taught me by your tenacious example; that patience which, disproportionate to ordinary life which seems to bid us haste, puts us in touch with all that surpasses us.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#27. No man can make haste to be rich without going against the will of God, in which case it is the one frightful thing to be successful.

George MacDonald

#28. Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality.

John Muir

#29. But if you are convinced that one mustn't listen at doors, but one may murder old women at one's pleasure, you'd better be off to America and make haste. Run, young man! There may still be time. I'm speaking sincerely. Haven't you the money? I'll give you the fare.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#30. Make haste to Love.

Hadewijch

#31. Lord, look down on Thy Servant!
Bad things have come to pass.
There is no heat in the midday sun, nor health in the wayside grass.
His bones are full of an old disease - his torments run and increase.
Lord, make haste with Thy Lightning and grant him a quick release!

Cherise Sinclair

#32. Life is short. We don't have much time to gladden the hearts of those who walk this way with us. So, be swift to love and make haste to be kind.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#33. The next thing is by gentle degrees to accustom children to those things they are too much afraid of. But here great caution is to be used, that you do not make too much haste, nor attempt this cure too early, for fear lest you increase the mischief instead of remedying it.

John Locke

#34. Make haste to live, and consider each day a life.

Seneca The Younger

#35. The plodding thrift and scrupulous integrity and long-winded patient industry of our business men of the last century are out of fashion in these "giddy-paced" times, and England is forgetting that those who make haste to be rich can hardly avoid much temptation and some sin.

Fanny Kemble

#36. Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime,
For none can call again the passed time.

Edmund Spenser

#37. Make haste Jane added, just because she always wanted to say that.

Shannon Hale

#38. Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust.

Rebecca West

#39. Let him that desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction.

Samuel Johnson

#40. A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-lantern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#41. Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.

William Shakespeare

#42. Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire,
Begin it with weak straws.

William Shakespeare

#43. Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.

Moliere

#44. There are moments, particularly in times of stress, when haste does not make waste, when our snap judgments and first impressions can offer a much better means of making sense of the world.

Malcolm Gladwell

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