Impatience Quotes

• Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Patience, Wisdom, Limits

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

  W. H. Auden

  Success, Patience, Work

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• Be patient with your impatience.

  Roy Masters

  Patient, Be Patient

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• Impatience can cause wise people to do foolish things.

  Janette Oke

  Wise, People, Causes

  Janette Oke (1990). “Father of My Heart”, Bethany House Pub

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• Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Patience, Art, Children

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• Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.'

  James Keller

  Wall, Adversity, Cells

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• God is never late, we're just impatient.

  LeCrae

  God, Christian, Rapper

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• Patience is the strength of the weak, impatience is the weakness of the strong.

  Immanuel Kant

  Strong, Weakness, Weak

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• The twin killers of success are impatience and greed.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Greed

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 07, 2017

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• Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.

  George Eliot

  People, Bees, Impatient

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• Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.

  Marianne Moore

  Independence, Bondage, Mark

  Marianne Moore (2016). “Observations: Poems”, p.80, Macmillan

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• All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.

  Franz Kafka

  Patience, Errors, Issues

  Franz Kafka (1994). “The collected aphorisms”

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  Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong

  "The Fables of La Fontaine: Book II". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1668.

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• There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

  Franz Kafka

  Patience, Art, Spring

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

  May Sarton

  Inspirational, Haste, Too Much

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.73, Open Road Media

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• Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud.

  Vernon Howard

  Inspirational, Moving On, Spiritual

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• 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.

  Rodney Collin

  Waiting, Impatient, Responsible

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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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• My worst quality is impatience.

  Emma Thompson

  Quality, Worst

  "Warts'n'all" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2005.

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• Patience is tied very closely to faith in our Heavenly Father. Actually, when we are unduly impatient, we are suggesting that we know what is best—better than does God. Or, at least, we are asserting that our timetable is better than His. We can grow in faith only if we are willing to wait patiently for God's purposes and patterns to unfold in our lives, on His timetable.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  God, Faith, Patience

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• Impatience never commanded success.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Inspirational, Success, Motivation

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

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Evil, Might, Waste

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• Procrastination is hardly more evil than grasping impatience.

  Immanuel Kant

  Procrastination, Evil, Grasping

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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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