Top 64 Patience Impatience Quotes
#1. 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.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#2. Impatience makes us get ahead of ourselves, reaching out for something in the future and not really being content with where we are, here and now.
David Steindl-Rast
#3. In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause.
Samuel Johnson
#4. Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience.
Stanley Hauerwas
#5. When expectations delay for too long, doubt draw nearer in haste and patience goes farther
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#6. 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.
Martin Luther
#7. Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared to wait trustfully and quietly on Him who has all things safely in His hands.
Elisabeth Elliot
#8. 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
Heather Choate Davis
#9. All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.
Franz Kafka
#10. You're enough to try the patience of an oyster!
Lewis Carroll
#11. The Gnostic needs a lot of patience because any act of impatience leads him to failure.
Samael Aun Weor
#12. We must accept the reality that the causes of impatience travel a two-way street.
Allan Lokos
#13. 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.
Jessica Khoury
#14. Calmly take what ill betideth; Patience wins the crown at length: Rich repayment him abideth Who endures in quiet strength. Brave the tamer of the lion; Brave whom conquered kingdoms praise; Bravest he who rules his passions, Who his own impatience sways.
Johann Gottfried Herder
#15. A certain amount of impatience may be useful to stimulate and motivate us to action. However, I believe that a lack of patience is a major cause of the difficulties and unhappiness in the world today.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#16. The sign that you have this virtue is patience, and impatience the sign that you have it not, and you will find that this is indeed so, when I speak to you further concerning this virtue.
Catherine Of Siena
#17. 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!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#18. Impatience can be very good by helping us not put up with tyranny, but it can distort our view of what is possible and how to bring about change. We have to cultivate patience so that our perception isn't distorted.
Paul Ekman
#19. Patience is the strength of the weak, impatience is the weakness of the strong.
Immanuel Kant
#20. Wishes can be harmful to us when they overcome patience.
Auliq Ice
#21. Maybe we need to reflect on the fact that the patience of God always outruns the impatience of our greed, and that His love always outweighs the greed that outweighs our love for Him.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#22. Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.
Guy Kawasaki
#23. 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!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#24. What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation.
Steve Maraboli
#25. Be patient, but persist with a well balanced patience and impatience! Take it step by step and keep it cool to the end!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#26. Patience and boredom are closely related. Boredom, a certain kind of boredom, is really impatience. You don't like the way things are, they aren't interesting enough for you, so you deccide- and boredom is a decision-that you are bored.
Bertrand Russell
#27. 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.
Theophile Gautier
#28. It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion and all made of wishes, All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance
William Shakespeare
#29. 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!
Israelmore Ayivor
#30. So many men treat their wives badly, or indifferently, or with barely contained impatience. Josh doesn't mind
no that's not right
he insists on openly showing his love and respect for me.
Lynn Morris
#31. Successful salesmen, authors, executives and workmen of every sort need patience. The great liability of youth is not inexperience but impatience.
William Feather
#33. But look within and watch the stuff coming up-restlessness, anxiety, impatience, pain-just watch it come up and don't get involved. Much to your surprise, it will simply go away. It rises, it passes away. As simple as that. There is another word for self-discipline. It is patience.
Henepola Gunaratana
#35. 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
#36. I should learn patience, it's a shame there's no time for that.
Maija Haavisto
#37. In any situation you can think of, impatience is a source of weakness and fear, while patience represents substance and strength.
Jim Rohn
#38. Have patience when it is really worth doing so, no matter what, and notwithstanding how hard impatience knocks at your door, and you will know patience better
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#40. It is good to exercise patience. But never let your patience be the type that will keep you refrained from acting.
Israelmore Ayivor
#41. Patience as we wait to take action is a kind of compassionate mind. Impatience on the other hand can be a source of failure.
Dalai Lama
#43. Force I will meet with gentleness; impatience with patience.
Walter Russell
#46. You're trying to eat grass that isn't there. Why don't you give it a chance to grow?
Richard Adams
#47. I'd learned long ago that patience was often rewarded. Certainly, impatience rarely was.
Todd Borg
#48. Wait and see the steps you should or should not have taken, and you shall understand patience and impatience better!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#49. Great men wait for the right moment to abandon caution. The rest of us abandon it when impatience becomes too much for us.
Mason Cooley
#50. 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.
Paulo Coelho
#51. Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation.
Jonathan Swift
#52. Sometimes, we just have to have enough faith to practice patience and not let our impatience morph into doubt.
Tracie Miles
#53. 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
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#54. Patience is a virtue, but impatience gets things done.
Chelsea Clinton
#55. 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.
Laura Teresa Marquez
#56. Patience shields you unnecessary error;
impatience exposes you to needless danger.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#57. There are times in life that you don't have to waste time at all, and there are times in life where delay saves time, purpose and life. In all things we do we must not forget this one thing: our lives have been timed!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#58. If you hold on, if you force yourself as hard as you can to find some kind of patience in the middle of all your impatience, things can change.
Meg Wolitzer
#59. 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.
Samuel Johnson
#60. Patience and Impatience are having tea discussing Time. The conversation goes on endlessly.
Natasha Tsakos
#61. Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
Michel De Montaigne
#62. Impatient men are generous ones. Or haven't you learned that by now?
Megan Chance
#63. 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.
Robert Updegraff
#64. Patience is inversely proportional to the distance from the front of the queue.
John Day
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