Impatience Quotes

The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies.

~ Criss Jami

The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.

~ Dante Alighieri

The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought to have spent in solitude and meditation, in endeavoring to make myself worthy of being loved.

~ Théophile Gautier

Alas, impatience is but another form of unhappiness. It is true, it is true. I have never met a happy impatient person.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Happiness is never in a rush. If you move too fast, you leave it behind.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

who journeyed to Denver, who died in Denver, who came back to Denver & waited in vain, who watched over Denver & brooded and loned in Denver and finally went away to find out the Time, & now Denver is lonesome for her heroes

~ Allen Ginsberg

Impatience kills quickly.

~ Katerina Stoykova Klemer

What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation.

~ Steve Maraboli

Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.

~ William Shakespeare

I could've loved you but the line is too long and your passiveness is endless.

~ Ahmed Mostafa

We want instant lunch, instant cure, instant miracles, instant salary, instant success— instant everything. This instant civilization, we have obsessed with, has made us grow a tad too impatient in virtually everything about life. And, of course, that doesn’t serve us so well.

~ Boniface Sagini

What you're missing is that the path itself changes you.

~ Julien Smith

It is good to exercise patience. But never let your patience be the type that will keep you refrained from acting.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Shakespeare's exquisite imagining belies our total inability to live in the present moment.

~ Harold Bloom

Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make people impatient, but proves that they are impatient. So everyone may learn from tribulation how his heart is constituted.

~ Martin Luther

Lingering, bottled-up anger never reveals the 'true colors' of an individual. It, on the contrary, becomes all mixed up, rotten, confused, forms a highly combustible, chemical compound then explodes as something foreign, something very different than one's natural self.

~ Criss Jami

pause, ponder,consult, think through it well, understand the consequence, know the benefit and take a second look at it again for it takes a little mistake to cause a big had I know with a deep regret

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

We're a society of brats, fighting over the same toys. That, for me, is the closest we come to be inherently evil as a people. It leads to selfishness, inflexibility, and impatience -- among so many other traits that are ugly and harmful. We're combative, competitive, petty, and suffer from one fatal flaw that I can never get my head around. We recognize behavior in others that makes us insane, while turning right around and doing the exact thing to someone else.

~ Trevor D. Richardson

Peace is one thing, revolution is another. You were either impatient or highly optimistic to think one would lead to the other. – Panchali Draupadi.

~ Krishna Udayasankar

Impatience, resentment, jealousy and endless want are not creative attractors and have no value.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Waiting is one of the things that human beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential things we must do successfully if we are to know happiness. We are impatient for the future and try to craft it with our own powers, but the future will come as it comes and will not be hurried.

~ Dean Koontz

Waiting is one of the things that human beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential things we must do successfully if we are to know happiness. We are impatient for the future and try to craft it with our own powers, but hte future will come as it ocmes and will not be hurried.

~ Dean Koontz

When we get impatient because something is taking too long, we should remember that Life waits on us a thousand times more than we wait on Life.

~ Laura Teresa Marquez

Don’t be too quick to leave the tree you are highly convinced of its future sweet fruits and comforting shade just because you see its present fruitlessness. Just sit under it and endure the scorching sun, one day, its branches will give you comfort and its fruits will give you smiles and nourish your body!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

A warrior of the Light is never in a hurry.Time works in his favor, he learns to master his impatience and avoids acting without thinking.

~ Paulo Coelho

LOVE is made up of a strong affection and patience whiles LUST is made up of a strong affection and impatience. Affection is common to them, but patience is not common.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Impatient men are generous ones. Or haven't you learned that by now?

~ Megan Chance

It embarrassed her, as a child, to think that her father had fallen in love, or, if men must love, then it should have been someone else, someone dark, mysterious and profoundly clever, not an ordinary person who was impatient for no reason and cross when one was late for lunch.

~ Daphne Du Maurier

Impatience has ruined many crowns; it had lured people to give up when they have just few minute to win, just few millimeters to touch the winning carpet!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Impatience is not the fastest way of getting to where your treasures are. It is the quickest way of by-passing them without even knowing. Keep calm, be patient!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Your potentials are called POTENTIALS because they are POTENT. Don't make them IMPOTENT by being IMPATIENT. Make an IMPACT.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Some patient dogs had waited a long time for the fatest bone to come, but the impatient had gone to scavenge for the little it could see.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Something draws you... An impatience with your own ignorance.

~ Richard Ford

What a tremendous sin impatience is, he thinks. It blinds us to the moment before us, and it is only when that moment has passed that we look back, and see it was full of treasures.

~ Robert Jackson Bennett

Wait and see the steps you should or should not have taken, and you shall understand patience and impatience better!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but ignores its relation to the past; neither the lazy nor the impatient man, that is, accepts the present instant in its full reality and so cannot love his neighbour completely.

~ W.h. Auden

Wishes can be harmful to us when they overcome patience.

~ Auliq Ice

In my impatience I become convinced that this desire of mine should have been fulfilled yesterday, when it belongs to a tomorrow that yesterday would have killed had I had my way.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The habit of mobility had become ingrained.

~ Doris Kearns Goodwin

A certain amount of impatience can be good to do the good works excessive patience delays to do, but sometimes, it is good to have a little amount of patience, for a little amount of patience can be a big antidote to a big woe of impatience

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah