Haste Quotes

We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.

Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.

Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.

Do not spoil the wonder with haste!

What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.

Haste is of the Devil.

Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.

The power given by the Constitution to the Executive to interpose his veto is a high conservative power; but in my opinion it should never be exercised except in cases of clear violation of the Constitution, or manifest haste and want of due consideration by Congress.

Haste in every business brings failures.

Go Placidly, Amid the noise and Haste & Remember what peace there may be in silence.

The earth does not argue, Is not pathetic, has no arrangements, Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise, Makes no discriminations, has no conceivable failures, Closes nothing, refuses nothing, shuts none out.

Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.

Take time for all things.

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.

Make haste cautiously.

Dawn seemed to follow midnight with indecent haste.

Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.

Haste to disgrace the traitor. Do not wait 'til later.

You must have absolute faith in your own perceptions of truth. Never act in haste or hurry; be deliberated in everything; wait until you know the true way.

Fair daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon: As yet the early-rising sun Has not attained his noon.

One must never be perfidious to his master. In the Lun Yu it says: One should act according to the way even in times of haste. One should act according to the way even in times of danger. It says further: 'When one is serving his master, he should exert himself.'

The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world.

Too great haste leads us to error.

Take time for deliberation. Haste spoils everything.

Haste is never more dangerous than when you feel that victory is in your grasp.

You've got to make haste while it's still light of day.

Haste is of the devil. Slowness is of God.

Practice the art of patience for nature never acts in haste.

All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.

Error is ever the sequence of haste.

We know great art by its effect on us. If we are prepared to look without preconceptions, without defenses, without haste, then art will change us.

Then haste we down to meet thy friends and foes; To place thy friends in ease, the rest in woes. For here though death doth end their misery, I'll there begin their endless tragedy.

Reckless haste makes poor speed.

Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.

Haste is slow. [Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]

I go, I go, look how I go, swifter than an arrow from a bow

When in haste, rest in the present. Take a deep breath and come back to here and now.

Haste and escape for your lives, look not behind you, escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed.

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

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.

Stillness is the ruler of haste.

Allow time and moderate delay; haste manages all things badly.

We must follow the rule: Better fewer, but better. We must follow the rule: Better get good human material in two or even three years than work in haste without hope of getting any at all.

Haste is blind and improvident.

Stumbling is the fruit of haste.

Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.

The West has made people too time-conscious, not knowing where they are going but speeding to get there because time is short.