Impatience Quotes

Your greatest mistakes will happen because of impatience.

Fear and impatience demagnetize. Poise magnetizes.

The opposite of patience is not impatience, but unbelief.

In the end, an impatience with the Word of God can be explained only by an impatience with God. We all, both individually and congregationally, neglect God's Word to our own ruin.

Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy.

Procrastination is hardly more evil than grasping impatience.

One has to wait without impatience for what should come, and yet at the same time do everything within one's power as though one were impatient and as though one were solely responsible.

Patience is a virtue, but impatience gets things done.

Everybody knows I'm impatient. I don't have to apologize for it. I'm too old for that.

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.

Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.

Thank everyone who calls out your faults,
your anger,
your impatience,
your egotism;
do this consciously,
voluntarily.

Cultivating inner discipline is something that takes time; expecting rapid results is simply a sign of impatience.

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.

I see now more clearly than ever before that even our greatest troubles spring from something that is [as] admirable and sound as it is dangerous – from our impatience to better the lot of our fellows.

My worst quality is impatience.

The true solitary ... will feel that he is himself only when he is alone; when he is in company he will feel that he perjures himself, prostitutes himself to the exactions of others; he will feel that time spent in company is time lost; he will be conscious only of his impatience to get back to his true life.

A hitter's impatience is the pitcher's biggest advantage.

To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well.

I'm patient with crossword puzzles and the most impatient golfer.

Talent is nothing but long impatience.

You know you have a lot of impatience with reality as you see it when you're a young man and full of dynamism and strength and ideals and so on.

I am inclined to think -' said I. `I should do so,' Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently.

We weren't impatient. We just weren't moving.

Suddenly I become filled with a consuming impatience to be gone.

Experience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impatience.

The Gnostic needs a lot of patience because any act of impatience leads him to failure.

A human being is all hope and impatience.

It seems to me probably that any one who has a series of intolerable positions to put up with must have been responsible for them to some extent... they have contributed to it by impatience or intolerance, or brusqueness-or some provocation.

Be patient with your impatience.

Procrastination and impatience form a system of checks and balances.

The sharpest sting of adversity it borrows from our own impatience.

Force I will meet with gentleness; impatience with patience.

the impatience of the old is the worst impatience of all.

Enlightenment is probably antithetical to impatience.

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.

O! I burn with impatience for the moment of the dissolution of intolerance; it has injured me.

He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin.

I want you to adore the Universe, to be easily delighted, but to be prompt as well with impatience with those artists who offend your own deep notions of what the Universe is or should be. ‘This above all ...’

It is distrust of God to be troubled about what is to come; impatience against God to be troubled with what is present; and anger at God to be troubled for what is past.

Hollywood's always saying, "Yesterday!" and scares you to death with all that deadline and yelling and impatience stuff.

Hunger is the mother of impatience and anger.

Impatience is a poor substitute for a well-considered plan.

Our impatience of miles, when we are in a hurry; but it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred and sixty yards.

Send out anger and impatience, and that's what you'll get. Send out love, and you'll get back love.