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

  Jeb Bush

  Suffering, Weakness, Fool

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

  Mason Cooley

  Procrastination, Balance, Checks

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

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Evil, Might, Waste

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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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• Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared to wait trustfully and quietly on Him who has all things safely in His hands.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspirational, Life, Patience

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• I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current love affair with all things Eastern. If I sneeze on the set, 40 people hand me echinacea. But I'd no sooner take that than eat a pencil. Maybe that's why I took up boxing. It's my response to men in white pajamas feeling each other's chi.

  Hugh Laurie

  Men, Hands, White

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Patience and boredom are closely related. Boredom, a certain kind of boredom, is really impatience. You don't like the way things are, they aren't interesting enough for you, so you deccide- and boredom is a decision-that you are bored.

  Bertrand Russell

  Interesting, Boredom, Decision

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• I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can't tell fast enough, the ears that aren't big enough, the eyes that can't take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Running, Missing Someone, Eye

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Men, Giving, Saint

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• Just remember, without discipline, a clear strategy, and a concise plan, the speculator will fall into all the emotional pitfalls of the market - jump from one stock to another, hold a losing position too long, and cut out of a winner too soon, for no reason other than fear of losing profit. Greed, Fear, Impatience, Ignorance, and Hope will all fight for mental dominance over the speculator. Then, after a few failures and catastrophes the speculator may become demoralised, depressed, despondent, and abandon the market and the chance to make a fortune from what the market has to offer.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Fall, Ignorance, Cutting

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