Haste Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Error is ever the sequence of haste.

  Duke of Wellington

  Errors, Sequence

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

  Aeschylus

  Work, Men, Literature

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• What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Children, Believe, Book

  "It pays to trust your gut" by Daniel Terdiman, www.wired.com. January 7, 2005.

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• Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.

  John Wesley

  Wisdom, Hurrying

  Letter to a member of the Society. 10 December 1777, in 'Select Letters' (1837)

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• Take time for deliberation. Haste spoils everything.

  Statius

  Deliberation, Take Time, Spoil

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• Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Hate, Men

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 13, st. 4.

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• Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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• Take time for all things.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Haste Makes Waste, Take Time, All Things

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• If you must be in a hurry, then let it be according to the old adage, and hasten slowly.

  Vincent de Paul

  Adages, Ifs

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• Haste breeds error; error breeds woe.

  Janet Morris

  Errors, Risk, Survival

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• Too great haste leads us to error.

  Moliere

  Errors

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 353-54, Sganarelle, I. 12, 1922.

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• All haste implies weakness.

  George MacDonald

  Weakness

  George MacDonald (1868). “Robert Falconer”, p.120

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• Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.

  Saadi

  Waste

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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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• My desire is to make what haste I can to be gone.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Desire, Gone, I Can

  1658 Last words. Quoted in John Morley Oliver Cromwell (1900), bk.5, ch.10.

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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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• Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.

  Milarepa

  Awareness, Arrivals

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• Stumbling is the fruit of haste.

  Muhammad Ali

  Fruit, Stumbling

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