Top 100 Quotes About Impatience
#1. At first Ifemelu thought Kimberly's apologizing sweet, even if unnecessary, but she had begun to feel a flash of impatience, because Kimberly's repeated apologies were tinged with self-indulgence, as though she believed that she could, with apologies, smooth all the scalloped surfaces of the world.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#2. I understand some of the people's impatience with the show last year. I think that Lisa's (Lili Taylor) story line (marrying Nate with minimal motivation in season three) became a little bit of a diversion - and that happens. It happens in every show.
Chris Albrecht
#3. Negativity ranges from irritation or impatience to fierce anger, from a depressed mood or sullen resentment to suicidal despair. Sometimes
Eckhart Tolle
#4. 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
#5. I wait, with some impatience in my pulse, but no doubt in my breast.
Charlotte Bronte
#6. When our lives are frantic and frenzied, we are more prone to anxiety, resentment, impatience, and irritability.
Kevin DeYoung
#7. 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.
Orhan Pamuk
#9. A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection
Michelangelo
#10. At times discreetly, at times disgustingly, I yielded to the most fatal temptation whenever I could no longer bear it: as a result of impatience, Orpheus lost Eurydice; as a result of impatience, I lost myself.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#11. Let us endeavor to commence every enterprise with a pure view to the glory of God, continue it without distraction, and finish it without impatience.
Francois Fenelon
#12. 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.
Chris Bradford
#13. 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
#14. I should learn patience, it's a shame there's no time for that.
Maija Haavisto
#16. In any situation you can think of, impatience is a source of weakness and fear, while patience represents substance and strength.
Jim Rohn
#17. When we meditate every morning we are putting on armor for the day's battle against our own impatience, inadequacy, resentment, and hostility.
Eknath Easwaran
#18. The top two ways to destroy success are greed and impatience
Phil Harding
#19. A simple fit of impatience often soon bridges the distance between utopia and murder.
Nicolas Gomez Davila
#20. Could be generous and caring to a fault, but he had a darker side as well, characterized by monomania, impatience, and unwavering self-absorption, qualities that seemed to intensify through his college years.
Jon Krakauer
#21. Lingerer, my brain is on fire with impatience; and you tarry so long!
Charlotte Bronte
#22. Your greatest mistakes will happen because of impatience.
T. B. Joshua
#23. Impatience is really a condition for people with control issues; people become impatient, and angry, when they find themselves in any situation beyond their control.
Zane
#24. Arise and pour pure wine into my cup,
Pour moon beams into the dark night of my
thought,
That I may lead home the wanderer
And imbue the idle looker-on with restless
impatience;
And advance hotly on a new quest
And become known as the champion of a new
spirit
Muhammad Iqbal
#25. I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities that make me the lovable chap I am.
Richard Hammond
#26. Procrastination is hardly more evil than grasping impatience.
Immanuel Kant
#27. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of impatience that they do not return.
Franz Kafka
#28. Only one man walked with that kind of impatience - as if he was waiting for the world to catch up to him.
Monica McCarty
#29. Time is a monster that cannot be reasoned with. It responds like a snail to our impatience, then it races like a gazelle when you can't catch a breath.
Simon Birch
#30. 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
#31. Cultivating inner discipline is something that takes time; expecting rapid results is simply a sign of impatience.
Dalai Lama
#32. One common cause of this mistake of preferring to imagine and admire a great ideal instead of beginning to do little deeds is our impatience with little baby steps, our lack of humility.
Peter Kreeft
#34. Right now it's just me and my impatience having a silent war at the dinner table.
Colleen Hoover
#35. We know what boredom is: it is a dull
Impatience or a fierce velleity,
A champing wish, stalled by our lassitude,
To make or do. In the strict sense, of course,
We invent nothing, merely bearing witness
To what each morning brings again to light
Richard Wilbur
#36. Quick words did not always mean a quick mind.
Jeff Shaara
#37. It is good to exercise patience. But never let your patience be the type that will keep you refrained from acting.
Israelmore Ayivor
#38. There's a generation of children who don't like black and white movies. There's a level of impatience or intolerance now.
Peter Jackson
#39. Can we, then, set aside the impatience that the Internet tends to breed, and the habits of being distracted which our highly compacted modern lives create, in order to focus on what really matters?
David F. Wells
#40. 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
#41. You have an incredible body. He reaches out to touch my stomach. I feel no pleasure in his compliment or his touch, only impatience. This is the only feeling. I feel like the paper on which my mood chart is printed.
Augusten Burroughs
#43. Anger, jealousy, impatience, and hatred are the real troublemakers, with them problems cannot be solved.
Dalai Lama
#44. He made a tck noise in the back of his throat. It expressed all sorts of annoyance and impatience, with just a smidgen of an implied eye roll.
Katie MacAlister
#45. Impatience is a poor substitute for a well-considered plan.
David Eddings
#46. I have closely noted that people who watch a great deal of TV never again seem able to adjust to the actual pace of life. The speed of the passing images becomes the speed the aspire to and they seem to develop an impatience and boredom with anything else.
Jim Harrison
#47. She turned back to the dude who stood with arms crossed over his broad chest, radiating impatience and hostility. Sexy as hell. She was tired from lack of sleep, exhilarated by the thought of what the day might bring, but she sure as heck wasn't blind.
Toni Anderson
#48. Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#49. Something draws you ... An impatience with your own ignorance.
Richard Ford
#50. There is also a false serenity that is not at all Christian. We need feel no shame as Christians about a measure of impatience, longing, protest against what is unnatural, and a strong measure of desire for freedom and earthly happiness and the capacity to effect change. In
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#51. 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.
Grace Fiorre
#52. If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest.
Jimmy Breslin
#53. There was a feeling during the years of George W. Bush's presidency that his gracelessness as well as his appetite for war were linked to his impatience with complexity. He acted 'from the gut,' and was economical with the truth until it disappeared.
Teju Cole
#54. Force I will meet with gentleness; impatience with patience.
Walter Russell
#55. If you can be free from pride, self-pity, self-centeredness, selfishness, jealousy, envy, intolerance, impatience, greed, gluttony, lust, sloth, arrogance, and dishonesty, then there is a state of serenity and connectedness within.
Russell Brand
#56. The biggest enemy to the partnership of dressage is impatience and the human nature to dominate other creatures.
Walter Zettl
#57. A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
Edmund Burke
#58. Olivia. I've lost her three times. The first was to impatience. The second was to a lie so dense we couldn't work our way through it, and the third time - this time - I've lost her to Noah.
Tarryn Fisher
#60. Worry, hate, fear-together with their offshoots: anxiety, bitterness, impatience, avarice, unkindness, judgmentalness, and condemnation-all attack the body at the cellular level. It is impossible to have a healthy body under these conditions.
Neale Donald Walsch
#61. Where words leave off, gesture begins. Don't we speak of a person being speechless with rage, dancing with impatience, setting his teeth? The final motions of the soul are speechless, animal, grotesque, or of an incomparable beauty.
Charlie Chaplin
#62. Our human tendency is to be impatient with the person who cannot see the truth that is so plain to us. We must be careful that our impatience is not interpreted as condemnation or rejection.
Henry B. Eyring
#63. We waste the power in impatience which, if, otherwise employed, might remedy the evil.
Robert Aris Willmott
#64. We need not avoid our active lives, but simply bring to them a new vision and shift of gravity. for in the center we are rooted in god's love. in such a place there is no need for striving and impatience and dashing about seeking approval.
Sue Monk Kidd
#65. We could not help contrasting the equanimity of Nature with the bustle and impatience of man. His words and actions presume alwaysa crisis near at hand, but she is forever silent and unpretending.
Henry David Thoreau
#66. Been provoked into disrespect and impatience against her better
Jane Austen
#67. If public opinion still endorses military action that's one thing, but if they wait maybe it will not. So it's not only impatience, but there are several other factors.
Hans Blix
#68. As a people, I am afraid, we tend too often to brush aside with impatience, sometimes with discourtesy, customs and points of view which are alien to us.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#69. Our greatest troubles spring from something that is as admirable as it is dangerous ... our impatience to better the lot of our fellows.
Karl Popper
#70. By our pontifical assertions, our superior impatience, and our casual brushing aside of their curiosity, we do not encourage their inquiry, for we are rather apprehensive of what may be asked of us; we do not foster their discontent, for we ourselves have ceased to question.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#72. Time is a fickle whore. Whenever you want it to pass slowly, it speeds up, and whenever you're full of nervous impatience, it crawls like a sloth on sedatives.
Leisa Rayven
#73. You're trying to eat grass that isn't there. Why don't you give it a chance to grow?
Richard Adams
#74. The ability to satisfy desires instantly also breeds impatience, fuelled by a nagging sense that one could be doing so much else.
Anonymous
#75. That is the optimal creative vantage point: To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation-with no feeling of impatience, doubt, or unworthiness hindering the receiving of it-that is the Science of Deliberate Creation at its best.
Esther Hicks
#76. She made a gesture of impatience. 'Do you never think of the future?'
'Not in your presence,' laughed Nick. 'I think of you - you - and only you. Didn't you know?
Ethel M. Dell
#77. Impatience is best handled by allowing an indefinite time for the job, particularly new jobs that require unfamiliar techniques; by doubling the allotted time when circumstances force time planning;
Robert M. Pirsig
#79. 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.
Daphne Du Maurier
#80. I'd learned long ago that patience was often rewarded. Certainly, impatience rarely was.
Todd Borg
#81. I am different when my nails are done. I am more dynamic. I gesticulate more, I am better at scaring my staff. I can indicate impatience by drumming on tabletops and I can wrap up a meeting with a few choice clatters.
Marian Keyes
#82. One step at a time is enough for me. Impatience is simply a way of beating yourself up. (from Kammy haynes)
Susan Jeffers
#83. The cure for impatience with the fulfillment of God's timetable is to believe His promises, obey His will, and leave the results to Him. So often when God's timetable stretches into years we become discouraged and ... want to give up or try to work something out on our own.
Jerry Bridges
#84. What they (Americans) do, they want to be in a hurry.
Henry Chadwick
#85. Wait and see the steps you should or should not have taken, and you shall understand patience and impatience better!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#86. And angle of vision, dust, gravity, solitude,
and the part of the law which is the world's waiting
and the part of the law which is my waiting,
and the part which is my impatience - now; now?
though there are, there really are
things in the world, you must believe me.
Jorie Graham
#87. Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment, and consider the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment.
Samuel Johnson
#88. I slide to my knees and say, "Please let this be over." Then, I'm not ready for it to be over.
Andre Agassi
#89. No more restless uncertainties, no more anxious desires, no more impatience at the place we are in; for it is God who has placed us there, and who holds us in his arms. Can we be unsafe where he has placed us?
Francois Fenelon
#90. I will settle, in the short term," said Dumbledore, with a bite of impatience in his voice, "for a lack of open hostility. You will shake hands. You are on the same side now. Time is short, and unless the few of us who know the truth stand united, there is no hope for any of us.
J.K. Rowling
#91. Everybody knows I'm impatient. I don't have to apologize for it. I'm too old for that.
Dennis Green
#92. A hitter's impatience is the pitcher's biggest advantage.
Pete Rose
#93. I have been devoured all my life by an incurable and burning impatience: and to this day find all oratory, biography, operas, films, plays, books, and persons, too long.
Margot Asquith
#94. Thus you are led from moment to moment in your halter of preoccupation with self, and kindled instantly to displeasure, impatience or anger if an obstacle intervenes.
Tito Colliander
#95. They fight like puppies. 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.
Patrick Rothfuss
#97. There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.
Samuel Johnson
#98. 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
#99. 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
