Impatience Quotes - Page 3

• 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

  Book, Play, Long

  Margot Asquith (1933). “More Memories”

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• 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

  Lying, Hands, Desire

  Edward Sapir, David Goodman Mandelbaum (1985). “Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality”, p.111, Univ of California Press

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• Procrastination is hardly more evil than grasping impatience.

  Immanuel Kant

  Procrastination, Evil, Grasping

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• 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

  Shortcuts, Finals, May

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• Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process. What does patience mean? It means to look at the thorn and see the rose, to look at the night and see the dawn. Impatience means to be so shortsighted as to not be able to see the outcome. The lovers of God never run out of patience, for they know that time is needed for the crescent moon to become full.

  Elif Safak

  Running, Mean, Moon

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Bears, Habit, Should

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• The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Wise, Wisdom, Impatient

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.65, Shambhala Publications

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• 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

  Optimistic, Creative, Feelings

  Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2009). “Ask and it is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires”, p.24, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Hope, O my soul, hope. Watch carefully, for everything passes quickly, even though your impatience turns a very short time into a long one.

  Teresa of Avila

  Hope, Long, Soul

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• 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

  Patience, Men, Waiting

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• There's a generation of children who don't like black and white movies. There's a level of impatience or intolerance.

  Peter Jackson

  Children, Black And White, Generations

  "Peter Jackson's labor of love". "Dateline" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2005.

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• Procrastination and impatience form a system of checks and balances.

  Mason Cooley

  Procrastination, Balance, Checks

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• I'd say my greatest weakness is impatience. I don't suffer fools well.

  Jeb Bush

  Suffering, Weakness, Fool

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• 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

  Self, Asceticism, Obstacles

  Tito Colliander (1982). “Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth”, p.5, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

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• We waste the power in impatience which, if, otherwise employed, might remedy the evil.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Evil, Might, Waste

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• The schoolboy counts the time till the return of the holidays; the minor longs to be of age; the lover is impatient till he is married.

  Joseph Addison

  Holiday, Age, Return

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• One step at a time is enough for me. Impatience is simply a way of beating yourself up.

  Susan Jeffers

  Success, Way, Steps

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• What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance. I regard every other attempt to change the world, even if it springs from the best intentions, as futile.

  Hermann Hesse

  Spring, Intellectual, World

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• But all I feel is impatience, fury for the opposition I anticipate and the lies I'm going to have to tell to make it happen, and frustration that I can't even take a walk without them sending someone to hover. Attack me," she said. "I beg your pardon, Lady Queen?" "You should attack me, and we'll see what he does. He's probably quite bored--it'll be a relief to him." "Mightn't he run me through with his sword?" "Oh." Bitterblue chuckled. "Yes, I suppose he might. That would be a shame." "I'm gratified that you think so," said Giddon dryly.

  Kristin Cashore

  Running, Queens, Lying

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.84, Penguin

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• Sometimes I thought of the Peace Corps as a reverse refugee organization, displacing all of us lost Midwesterners, and it was probably the only government entity that taught Americans to abandon key national characteristics. Pride, ambition, impatience, the instinct to control, the desire to accumulate, the missionary impulse - all of it slipped away.

  Peter Hessler

  Ambition, Pride, Organization

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• Clever talk can confound the workings of virtue, just as small impatiences can confound great projects.

  Confucius

  Clever, Justice, Virtue

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• A criminal trial is like a cultural in-flight test in which society projects its own history, fears, impatience, insolence, clemency, insecurities, dreams and nightmares upon facts. ... What's inside is every fairy-tale monster, a brutal ogre, a bloodthirsty werewolf, an elegant vampire, a scheming devil, a bullying giant, a sneering troll, or maybe just an abusive stepfather.

  Ron Franscell

  Dream, Bullying, Insecurity

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• Fear and impatience demagnetize. Poise magnetizes.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Poise

  Florence Scovel Shinn (2013). “Your Word is Your Wand: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.32, Lulu Press, Inc

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

  L. T. Meade

  Age, Worst, Old Age

  L. T. Meade (2016). “The Honorable Miss: Children's Fiction”, p.201, VM eBooks

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• We must accept the reality that the causes of impatience travel a two-way street.

  Allan Lokos

  Patience, Reality, Two

  Allan Lokos (2012). “Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living”, p.92, Penguin

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