Top 100 Quotes About Impatience
#3. Give me your wrists, Alayna. I sense your impatience, and I know exactly where you intend for those hands to go.
Scarlet Wolfe
#4. But I also think most people today lose the savor of love and sex through oversophistication and impatience.
George Rockwell
#5. Do not be vexed with those who show pride, or malice, effeminacy, and impatience in their intercourse with you, or others, but , remembering that you yourself are subject to the same and greater sins and passions, pray for them and be meek with them.
John Of Kronstadt
#6. Impatience for victory guarantees defeat
Louis XIV
#7. 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.
Watchman Nee
#8. The twin killers of success are impatience and greed.
Jim Rohn
#9. Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as well as its impatience.
Eric Alterman
#10. We can actually live out the trials and temptations of the day before they come. We can in prayer deal with all our unrighteous aspirations, selfishness, perverse inclinations, impatience, anger, procrastination. This is a form of spiritual creation.
Stephen Covey
#11. All the troubles of the world, especially the spiritual, such as grief, impatience, disillusionment, despair, the truly basic troubles of man-they came about only because of the failure to view clearly the majesty of God.
Abraham Isaac Kook
#12. Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
Marianne Moore
#13. Jim and I hit it off immediately, partly because our interests were astonishingly similar and partly, I suspect, because a certain youthful arrogance, a ruthlessness, an impatience with sloppy thinking can naturally to both of us.
Francis Crick
#14. Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
W. H. Auden
#15. Our impatience is so implacable that, as actress-author Carrie Fisher quipped, even "instant gratification takes too long.
Carl Honore
#16. Impatience has a poor track record for perfection. Getting things right usually includes calming down!
Garrison Wynn
#17. She had always been a fast driver, even before she could afford a fast car. It was impatience as much as anything: chafing at the fact that she couldn't actually do anything while driving - except drive.
Chico Kidd
#18. Impatience can cause wise people to do foolish things.
Janette Oke
#19. Lord, help me to be a good wife. I fully realize that I don't have what it takes to be one without Your help. Take my selfishness, impatience, and irritability and turn them into kindness,
Stormie O'martian
#20. 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.
Seth Godin
#21. Beneath her self-control, though he did not guess it, was the impatience of the keen brain watching a slower brain laboriously cover the ground it had already traversed in a flash.
Agatha Christie
#22. 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
#23. There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness." Franz Kafka
Jason Harvey
#24. Oh rocks!' says Molly Bloom, drumming her fingers in impatience. 'Tell us in plain words.
James Joyce
#25. When we define our happiness by some point in the future, it will never arrive. We'll keep waiting until tomorrow. If we allow impatience to govern us, we will miss the gift of the moment. We'll arrive at that point in time we expected to provide fulfillment and find it lacking.
Joshua Harris
#26. 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
#27. Hope, O my soul, hope. You know neither the day nor the hour. Watch carefully, for everything passes quickly, even though your impatience turns a very short time into a long one.
Teresa Of Avila
#28. Invariably dressed in black, the Countess was one of those dowagers whose natural natural independence of mind, authority of age, and impatience with the petty made her the ally of all irreverent youth.
Amor Towles
#29. It is not uncommon for fighters' camps to be gloomy. In heavy training, fighters live in dimensions of boredom others do not begin to contemplate. Fighters are supposed to. The boredom creates an impatience with one's life, and a violence to improve it. Boredom creates a detestation for losing.
Norman Mailer
#30. The impatience of the old is the worst impatience of all.
L. T. Meade
#31. 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.
Charles Caleb Colton
#32. His impatience for sleep often frightened that very sleep away.
Hugh Howey
#33. I wiggled and squirmed in my seat as if I had ants in my pants, but in reality it was merely impatience.
A.B. Shepherd
#34. 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.
Dick Durbin
#35. The computer, the noise of the computer feels like impatience. It's sort of the sound of impatience to me.
Tony Kushner
#36. You can be a girl at any age, you know. Girls at forty. Girls at fifty. There's a kind of flightiness to them, just like how a man at forty can have the impatience and belligerence of a five-year-old boy. But you can also be a woman at any age.
Robert Jackson Bennett
#37. 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.
Edwidge Danticat
#38. There were moments when she felt a sudden, violent longing for him, but it was only impatience, not pain.
Ayn Rand
#39. Summer was on the way; Jem and I awaited it with impatience. Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the tree house; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill.
Harper Lee
#40. Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone.
Isobelle Carmody
#41. Procrastination and impatience form a system of checks and balances.
Mason Cooley
#42. How many times," continued Lindsay Noseworth, second-in-command here and known for his impatience with all manifestations of the slack, "have you been warned, Suckling, against informality of speech?
Thomas Pynchon
#43. 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.
Robert Jackson Bennett
#45. We all want results and we want them fast. But, when practicing meditation, impatience is a hindrance.
Gudjon Bergmann
#47. Living at a beach, near a river mouth, taught him the impotence of impatience at events moving at nature's pace.
Tony Bishop
#49. It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves.
Demosthenes
#50. His face registered the five stages of unlawful investigation: disbelief, skepticism, impatience, irritation, and astonishment.
Suzanne M. Trauth
#51. Experience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impatience.
Michel De Montaigne
#52. All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.
Franz Kafka
#53. There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#54. She moved and spoke decisively, sometimes with a certain impatience, as if the world dragged two steps behind her will and she found the friction grating.
Seth Dickinson
#56. The Gnostic needs a lot of patience because any act of impatience leads him to failure.
Samael Aun Weor
#57. It is exactly our sense of haste and impatience that impedes us from seeing the true beauty life has to offer.
Jennifer Megan Varnadore
#58. War is, among other things, impatience.
Brian Zahnd
#59. Turn, Liz said, trying not to hide her impatience at being forced to read at non-speed-of-light pace.
Ally Carter
#60. Our self-love and pride manifest themselves especially in impatience
John Of Kronstadt
#61. They are young, and boys. They are full of anger and impatience. Women have less trouble with these things. It's part of what makes us better fighters." I
Patrick Rothfuss
#62. On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.
Evelyn Underhill
#63. It's an universal law
intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#64. We must accept the reality that the causes of impatience travel a two-way street.
Allan Lokos
#65. Listen. The trees in this story are stirring, trembling, readjusting themselves. A breeze is coming in gusts off the sea, and it is almost as if the trees know, in their restlessness, in their head-tossing impatience, that something is about to happen.
Maggie O'Farrell
#66. My pragmatic nature, my impatience, will most likely have me drunk on aged spirit by noon.
S.A. Tawks
#67. Impatience, resentment, jealousy and endless "want" are not creative attractors and have no value.
Bryant McGill
#68. Larry Wall's classic Programming Perl described the three programmer's virtues: hubris, laziness, and impatience.
C.J.S. Hayward
#69. Prayers are answered in one of four ways," she said. "Yes. No. I have
something else in mind. And ... "
She paused long enough for my impatience to show. "And what's the
fourth answer?"
"Wait," she said.
Megan McCafferty
#70. 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
#71. We speak in (rich) monotones. Our poetry is haunted by the music it has left behind. Orpheus shrinks to a poet when he looks back, with the impatience of reason, on a music stronger than death.
George Steiner
#73. 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
#74. Impatience and stupidity claim more victims than any weapon.
Michael Scott
#75. a woman with a lover's impatience with the whole world, a woman who feared when she did not get what she wanted that it meant she was not loved by creation itself; her need for success at seduction was like her need for dinner or breakfast. When
Alexander Chee
#76. 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
#77. The patient. The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience: - they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#78. The rage for swiftness which is so characteristic of this restless time has been extended to fashions of reading. One effect of the modern habit of swift and careless reading is seen in the impatience with which anything is regarded which is not to be taken in at a glance.
Arlo Bates
#79. 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.
Edward Sapir
#80. Enlightenment is probably antithetical to impatience.
Erik Naggum
#81. Actually just has a born tech-science wienie's congenital impatience with the referential murkiness and inelegance of verbal systems.
David Foster Wallace
#82. If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns.
Madeleine L'Engle
#83. Too many are trying to conquer higher weaknesses such as procrastination, impatience or pride while still being slaves to their appetites. If we can't control the body and its appetites, how can we control our tongues, or overcome the emotions or anger, envy, jealousy, or hatred?
Stephen Covey
#84. The longing and impatience of boyhood give way to the longing and discontent of manhood, and the future you anticipate is still just around the corner.
Morgan Llywelyn
#85. It was clear to the one speaking that each of his words was being allowed to enter into his listener, who sat there quietly, openly, waiting' not a single word was disregarded or met with impatience; Vasudeva attached neither praise nor blame to what he heard but merely listened.
Hermann Hesse
#86. 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
#87. Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be. Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances which no God attends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#88. Never permit me to disgrace my high vocation by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.
Mother Teresa
#89. O! I burn with impatience for the moment of the dissolution of intolerance; it has injured me.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#90. 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.
Francis Chan
#91. The sharpest sting of adversity it borrows from our own impatience.
George Horne
#92. Seeing the world around you clearly is a critical step in developing an idea for a business, carrying out that idea, and then thriving with an ongoing concern. Through choice, predilection, lack of education, impatience, or other causes, the entrepreneur lives, in a way, outside the mainstream.
Paul Hawken
#93. 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. If we are good at waiting, we discover that what we wanted of the future, in our impatience, is no longer what we want, that waiting has brought wisdom.
Dean Koontz
#94. Never speak out of anger, Never act out of fear, Never choose from impatience, But wait ... and peace will appear.
Guy Finley
#95. Without faith in his own judgment no man can go very far in this game. That is about all I have learned - to study general conditions, to take a position and stick to it. I can wait without a twinge of impatience. I can see a setback without being shaken, knowing that it is only temporary.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#96. I think teenage impatience is just plain human nature! I think every generation has to cope with different circumstances, different problems. But it's the world that's changed. Human nature hasn't.
Loretta Young
#97. Her hips were long and narrow, her bust was large, and she wore close-fitting skirts and sweaters and high heels that gave a tight arch of impatience to the muscles of her calves; her step was small and pretty and her laughter violent, total, and critical.
Saul Bellow
#99. Anakin was sixteen years old. Impatience was wired into his being. Despite Anakin's strong Force connection, it would most likely take years before he developed true inner balance.
Obi-Wan, on the other hand, was supposed to have it already.
Jude Watson
#100. The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Larry Wall
