Haste Quotes

• Do nothing in haste; look well to each step; and from the beginning think what may be the end.

  Edward Whymper

  Thinking, Climbing, Hiking

  1871 Scrambles Amongst the Alps.

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• Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Time, Hate, Haste Makes Waste

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• Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.

  Moliere

  Errors, Literature, Unreasonable

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• Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Wise, Running

  1595 Friar Laurence to Romeo. Romeo andJuliet, act 2, sc.2, l.94.

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

  Livy

  Men, Doe, Blind

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXII, section 39,

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

  Tacitus

  Delay, Truth Is, Inspection

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• Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.

  Aeschylus

  Work, Men, Literature

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• Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.

  William Godwin

  Education, Forget, Ends

  William Godwin (1823). “The enquirer. Reflections on education, manners, and literature. In a series of essays”, p.69

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• Take time for deliberation. Haste spoils everything.

  Statius

  Deliberation, Take Time, Spoil

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• Wishing you happiness always! Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. . . . . Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

  Max Ehrmann

  Life, Beautiful, Dream

  "Desiderata" (1927).

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• Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.

  Milarepa

  Awareness, Arrivals

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• We have to slow the rhythm of rush in our lives so that the best of who are can emerge.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Inspirational, Life, Patience

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Oct 09, 2014

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• But just as haste and restlessness are typical of our present-day life, so change also takes place more rapidly than before. This applies to change in the relationships between nations as it does to change within an individual nation.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Change, Typical, Doe

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• A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beautiful, Book, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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• Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Patience, Men, Long

  "Les Caracteres". Book by Jean de la Bruyere (Des jugements, aphorism 108), 1688.

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• Quick enough, if good enough.

  St. Jerome

  Good Enough, Enough, Ifs

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 353-54, Epistle. LXVI. Par. 9, 1922.

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• No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.

  Will Durant

  Success, Work, Men

  Will Durant (2011). “The Life of Greece: The Story of Civilization”, p.419, Simon and Schuster

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• Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.

  William Shakespeare

  Weed, Sweet, Flower

  William Shakespeare, James R. Siemon (2009). “King Richard III: Third Series”, p.240, A&C Black

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

  Ben Vereen

  Light, Godmother, Stills

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• Error is ever the sequence of haste.

  Duke of Wellington

  Errors, Sequence

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• I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.

  William Shakespeare

  Greatness, Glory, Settings

  1613 Wolsey. Henry VIII, act 3, sc.2, l.224-6.

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• Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room Piled high with cases in my father’s name; Piled high, packed large,--where, creeping in and out Among the giant fossils of my past, Like some small nimble mouse between the ribs Of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there At this or that box, pulling through the gap, In heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, The first book first. And how I felt it beat Under my pillow, in the morning’s dark, An hour before the sun would let me read! My books!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Morning, Father, Book

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1998). “Aurora Leigh”, p.103, OUP Oxford

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• We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Death, Waiting

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

  William Shakespeare

  Arrows, Looks, Bows

  William Shakespeare (2011). “A Midsummer Night's Dream (Timeless Shakespeare)”, p.45, Saddleback Educational Publ

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